ABSTRACT

Workplace relational aggression incurs substantial costs to organizations in the form of reduced employee effectiveness and can exact a personal toll on the targets of the aggression. The extant literature contains limited studies related to physiological variables in predicting the perpetration of workplace relational aggression. Using survey data from a large US military sample (N = 2290), this research tested a hypothesized indirect effects model of sleep and relational aggression against unit members. Results suggest that subjective sleep duration and discontinuity are associated indirectly with perpetrating relational aggression against unit members through higher levels of poor mental health symptoms. Moreover, this association was more robust at higher versus lower levels of trait anger. This research is among the first to examine sleep disturbance or mental health as potential upstream factors associated with instigating relational aggression in the workplace. This is also among the first scientific studies on perpetrating relational aggression against unit members in the US military.

摘要

工作场所的关系性侵略以降低员工效率的形式给组织带来了沉重的成本，并且可能对侵略的目标造成个人损失。现有文献中涉及与生理变量有关的预测有限的工作场所相关侵害行为的研究有限。这项研究使用了来自大型美国军事样本（N = 2290）的调查数据，测试了假设的睡眠和与单位成员的关系攻击性间接影响模型。结果表明，主观的睡眠时间和不连续性与较高水平的不良心理健康症状间接地与对单位成员的关系攻击有关。而且，这种关联在特质愤怒的高低水平上更为稳健。这项研究是最早将睡眠障碍或心理健康作为与激发工作场所的关系攻击相关的潜在上游因素的研究之一。这也是有关对美军单位成员实施关系侵略的第一批科学研究之一。