Workplace Bullying Scale: The Study of Validity and Reliability

Nizamettin Doğar

doi:10.7336/academicus.2015.11.07

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Nizamettin Doğar Çukurova University, Turkey 0000-0003-4420-3734

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https://doi.org/10.7336/academicus.2015.11.07

Abstract

The aim of this research is to adapt the Workplace Bullying Scale (Tınaz, Gök & Karatuna, 2013) to Albanian language and to examine its psychometric properties. The research was conducted on 386 person from different sectors of Albania. Results of exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis demonstrated that Albanian scale yielded 2 factors different from original form because of cultural differences. Internal consistency coefficients are,890 -,801 and split-half test reliability coefficients, 864 -,808. Comfirmatory Factor Analysis results change from,40 to,73. Corrected item-total correlations ranged,339 to,672 and according to t-test results differences between each item’s means of upper 27% and lower 27% points were significant. Thus Workplace Bullying Scale can be use as a valid and reliable instrument in social sciences in Albania.

Keywords:

workplace bullying, validity, reliability, translation, confirmatory factor analysis

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Büyüköztürk, Ş. (2004). Veri analizi el kitabı. Ankara: Pegem A Yayıncılık.

Einarsen, S. & Raknes, B. I. (1997). Harassment in the workplace and the victimization of men. Violence and Victims, 12, 247-263.

Everitt, B.S.(1975). Multivariate Analysis: The need for data and other problems. British Journal of Psychiatry.126287-240.

Einarsen, S., Mathiesen S. B. & Skokstad, A. (1998). Bullying, burnout and wellbeing among assistant nurses. Journal of Occupational Health and Safety, 14, 263-268.

Groeblinghoff, D. & Becker, M. (1996). A case study of mobbing and the clinical treatmentof mobbing victims. Europen Journal Work and Organizational Psychology, 5, 277-294.

Leymann, H. (1990). Mobbing and Psychological Terror at Workplaces. Violence and Victims, Vol. 5, No. 2,1990, University of Stockholm, and National Institute of Occupational Health, Stockholm, Sweden© 1990 Springer Publishing Company.

Leymann, H. (1996). The content and development of mobbing at work. European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, 5, 165-184.

Leymann, H. & Gustafson, A. (1996). Mobbing at work and the development of post-traumatic stress disorders. European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, 5, 251-275.

Matthiesen, S. B. & Einarsen, S. (2004). Psychiatric distress and symptoms of PTSD among victims of bullying at work. British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 32, 335-356.

Musaraj, Arta. Communication processes, public administration and performance evaluation An Albanian inside. Academicus International Scientific Journal 3 (2011): 36-43

Quine, L. (2001). Workplace bullying in nurses. Journal of Health Psychology, 6, 73-84.

Salin, D. (2003). Bullying and organisational politics in competitive and rapidly changing work environments. International Journal of Management and Decision Making, 4, 35-46.

Tan, B. U. (2005). İşyerinde rekabetin neden olduğu psikolojik baskılar. Unpublished thesis, Marmara Üniversitesi, Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, İstanbul.

Tınaz, P., Gök, S., Karatuna, I. (2013). Perceptions of Workplace Bullying among Social Security Institute Employees: Prevalence, Types, Antecedents and Individual Coping Responses, Journal Of Labour Relations, Ocak 2013, Cilt 4, Sayı 1, Sayfa: 39-53, Jan

Vartia, M. (2001) Consequences of workplace bullying with respect to the wellbeing of its targets and the observers of bullying, Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health, 21, 63-69.

Vartia, M. (2003). Workplace bullying: A study on the environment, well-being and health. Unpublished doctorate thesis, Universite d’Helsinki, Helsinki, Finlande.

Yaman, E. (2009). Psikoşiddet (Mobbing) Ölçeği: Geçerlik ve Güvenirlik Çalışması. Kuram ve Uygulamada Eğitim Bilimleri / Educational Sciences: Theory & Practice, 9 (2) • Bahar / Spring 2009 • 967-988.

Zapf, D., Knorz, C. ve Kulla, M. (1996). On the relationship between mobbing factors and job content social work environments and health outcomes. European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, 5, 251-237.