Citation

Taylor SG, Kluemper DH. J. Occup. Health Psychol. 2012; 17(3): 316-329.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2012, American Psychological Association)

DOI

10.1037/a0028211

PMID

22642407

Abstract

Although research on workplace aggression has long recognized job stressors as antecedents, little is known about the process through which employee responses to stressful workplace demands escalate from relatively mild interactions into more intense behaviors. This study investigates the influence that employees' perceptions of role stress (ambiguity, conflict, overload) have on their aggressive behavior by affecting their perceptions of incivility, and whether these downstream effects depend on personality traits (neuroticism, agreeableness, conscientiousness). Results supported moderated mediation, such that the indirect effects of perceived role ambiguity and role conflict on enacted aggression through experienced incivility varied according to individual differences in personality. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved).

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