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Be Friendly, Stay Well: The Effects of Job Resources on Well-Being in a Discriminatory Work Environment

Many studies have focused on the negative effects of discrimination on workers’ well-being. However, discrimination does not affect just victims but also those people who witness discriminatory acts or who perceived they are working in a discriminatory work environment. Although perceiving a discrim...

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Autores principales: Di Marco, Donatella, Arenas, Alicia, Giorgi, Gabriele, Arcangeli, Giulio, Mucci, Nicola
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5891603/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29666596
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00413
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author Di Marco, Donatella
Arenas, Alicia
Giorgi, Gabriele
Arcangeli, Giulio
Mucci, Nicola
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description Many studies have focused on the negative effects of discrimination on workers’ well-being. However, discrimination does not affect just victims but also those people who witness discriminatory acts or who perceived they are working in a discriminatory work environment. Although perceiving a discriminatory work environment might be a stressor, the presence of job resources might counteract its negative effects, as suggested by the Job Demand-Resources model. The goal of this study is to test the effect of perceiving a discriminatory work environment on workers’ psychological well-being when job autonomy and co-workers and supervisor support act as mediator and moderators respectively. To test the moderated mediation model data were gathered with a sample of Italian 114 truckers. Results demonstrated that job autonomy partially mediates the relationship between perceiving a discriminatory work environment and workers’ well-being. Main interactional effects have been observed when co-workers support is introduced in the model as moderator, while no main interactional effects exist when supervisor support is introduced. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed.
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spelling pubmed-58916032018-04-17 Be Friendly, Stay Well: The Effects of Job Resources on Well-Being in a Discriminatory Work Environment Di Marco, Donatella Arenas, Alicia Giorgi, Gabriele Arcangeli, Giulio Mucci, Nicola Front Psychol Psychology Many studies have focused on the negative effects of discrimination on workers’ well-being. However, discrimination does not affect just victims but also those people who witness discriminatory acts or who perceived they are working in a discriminatory work environment. Although perceiving a discriminatory work environment might be a stressor, the presence of job resources might counteract its negative effects, as suggested by the Job Demand-Resources model. The goal of this study is to test the effect of perceiving a discriminatory work environment on workers’ psychological well-being when job autonomy and co-workers and supervisor support act as mediator and moderators respectively. To test the moderated mediation model data were gathered with a sample of Italian 114 truckers. Results demonstrated that job autonomy partially mediates the relationship between perceiving a discriminatory work environment and workers’ well-being. Main interactional effects have been observed when co-workers support is introduced in the model as moderator, while no main interactional effects exist when supervisor support is introduced. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed. Frontiers Media S.A. 2018-04-03 /pmc/articles/PMC5891603/ /pubmed/29666596 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00413 Text en Copyright © 2018 Di Marco, Arenas, Giorgi, Arcangeli and Mucci. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5891603/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29666596
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00413
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