TABLE 3.
Mean differences in the degree of workplace bullying-related trauma symptoms according to STSS-M total score between different variable groups of the Part C.II-M of the WVHS-CCSRI.
95% Confidence Interval for Mean |
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Workplace bullying/mobbing relevant variable | Variable subgroup | N | STSS-M Mean | Std. Deviation | Std. Error | Lower bound | Upper bound | p value (ANOVA, t-test) | Post-hoc analysis (Scheffe test) | |
R2C5.34 | Subgroup Difference: Std. Error (95% CI) | |||||||||
Have you ever resigned or considered resigning because of bullying/mobbing experiences in your workplace? | Yes, I did (A) | 3 | 43.67 | 7.371 | 4.256 | 25.36 | 61.98 | |||
I thought of but did not (B) | 18 | 43.44 | 13.815 | 3.256 | 36.57 | 50.31 | 0.008 | B-C: 3.539 (2.60–20.29) | ||
No (C) | 56 | 32.00 | 12.985 | 1.735 | 28.52 | 35.48 | ||||
0.004 | ||||||||||
How often, to your opinion, bullying/mobbing happens in your workplace?” | Quite to very often (A) | 28 | 39.68 | 14.368 | 2.715 | 34.11 | 45.25 | 0.018 | A-B: 3.418 (1.44–18.53) | |
Moderately (B) | 21 | 31.95 | 12.863 | 2.807 | 26.10 | 37.81 | ||||
Not at all/rarely (C) | 26 | 29.69 | 9.915 | 1.944 | 25.69 | 33.70 | ||||
0.012 | ||||||||||
Have you ever been punished because you reported a workplace bullying/mobbing incident? | No | 83 | 32.31 | 13.001 | 1.427 | |||||
Yes | 6 | 51.33 | 11.894 | 4.856 | 0.001 | 5.470 (–29.893–8.14) | ||||
If you did not report or tell about the bullying/mobbing to others, you did so because you thought it was unimportant. | Yes | 54 | 37.17 | 13.855 | 1.885 | |||||
No | 23 | 30.35 | 12.995 | 2.710 | 0.048 | 3.388 (0.069–13.569) |