Alcohol, antagonism, and witnessing violence in the workplace: Drinking climates and social alienation-integration.

Occupational violence is of growing interest to both individuals and organisations in the health field.Not surprisingly, staff who work directly on the front line are more vulnerable to episodes of physical violence from the general public. However, violence manifests in a number of ways,and any person in the workplace can experience it at anytime. Occupational violence should be viewed as an event to be identified, understood and managed, with a consequent need to identify types of violence in order to provide policy direction and preventive strategies to enhance workplace safety. Violence cannot be totally prevented but the risk of violence and its negative impacts on the individual can be reduced with carefully considered planning and swift action following a violent event. This paper reports various types of violence, the magnitude of the problem and who is at risk. Policy initiatives are suggested and methods of prevention discussed.

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FC08-05 - Work-related threats and violence and incident use of psychotropics

European Psychiatry ◽

10.1016/s0924-9338(11)73560-x ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 26 (S2) ◽

pp. 1856-1856

Author(s):

I.E.H. Madsen ◽

H. Burr ◽

R. Rugulies

Keyword(s):

Statistical Power ◽

Mental Health Problems ◽

List Type ◽

Questionnaire Response ◽

Large Sample ◽

Adjusted Risk ◽

Work Related ◽

Increased Risk ◽

Violence In The Workplace ◽

Reported Data

IntroductionThe consequences of work-related violence and threats for clinically significant mental health problems are unclear: One study showed associations with hospitalisation for depressive and stress-related disorders, but a different study found no association with use of antidepressants. This null-finding, however, could be due to lack of statistical power.ObjectivesRe-examining the relation between exposure to work-related threats and violence in a large sample of Danish employees (n = 15527).AimsAssessing whether employees reporting exposure to work-related threats or violence are more likely to start treatment with psychotropics.MethodsWe synthesized three Danish studies with self-reported data on exposure to work-related threats or violence within the past 12 months and linked it with purchases of psychotropic medications through registry-data. After excluding 1750 respondents who had used psychotropic medication previous to 12 months before questionnaire-response, the final study population was 15527 employees. We examined four mutually exclusive outcomes:1)antidepressants (N06a),2)anxiolytics (N05b),3)antidepressants and anxiolytics,4)hypnotics only (N05c).Using four separate logistic regressions we adjusted risk estimates for confounding by gender, age, cohabitation, education, and income.ResultsPreliminary analyses show increased risk for treatment with antidepressants (OR = 1.46; 95%CI: 1.15–1.86) and antidepressants combined with anxiolytics (OR = 1.79; 95%CI:1.16–2.76), but not anxiolytics (OR = 1.04; 95%CI: 0.74-1.45) or hypnotics only (OR = 1.08; 95%CI: 0.77–1.50). Final results will be available for the conference.ConclusionsIn this large sample of Danish employees, exposure to threats or violence in the workplace is associated with treatment with antidepressants, and antidepressants combined with anxiolytics, but not anxiolytics or hypnotics only.

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Working conditions and job satisfaction of Argentinian psychiatrists: initial results of a comprehensive survey

International Psychiatry ◽

10.1192/s1749367600002447 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 8 (2) ◽

pp. 41-43

Author(s):

Elsa Wolfberg ◽

Daniel Moldavsky

Keyword(s):

Job Satisfaction ◽

Working Conditions ◽

Personal Life ◽

Negative Effects ◽

Comprehensive Survey ◽

Research Findings ◽

Impaired Health ◽

Violence In The Workplace ◽

Effects Of Violence ◽

Initial Results

Working in psychiatry is generally rewarding. However, it can also lack job satisfaction and be detrimental to personal life. Research findings indicate high rates of burnout (Kumar et al, 2007), impaired health status of practitioners (Korkeila et al, 2003), negative effects of violence in the workplace (Inoue et al, 2006) and lack of job satisfaction (Fischer et al, 2007; Bressi et al, 2009).

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The Joint Contribution of Experiencing and Witnessing Violence During Childhood on Child Abuse in the Parent Role

Violence and Victims ◽

10.1891/vivi.2003.18.6.619 ◽

2003 ◽

Vol 18 (6) ◽

pp. 619-639 ◽

Cited By ~ 14

Author(s):

Susan M. Cunningham

Keyword(s):

Child Abuse ◽

Family Violence ◽

Family Income ◽

Control Variable ◽

Childhood Experiences ◽

Witnessing Violence ◽

Survey Results ◽

Childhood Violence ◽

Using Data ◽

Joint Contribution

This article examines adult respondents’ abuse of children as a consequence of their own childhood experiences of abuse, both direct experiences of childhood violence (hitting) and exposure to interparental violence (witnessing). In particular, the study examines the extent to which these factors function interactively: Are both experience and exposure necessary or is either sufficient to increase disproportionately the probability of child abuse? Using data from the Second National Family Violence Survey, results of a logistic regression analysis show that either or both factors produced higher than average and relatively similar rates of child abuse. Only respondents with neither form of family violence reported lower than average rates of abuse of their own children. The analysis controlled for gender, race, family income, and family structure; race was the only control variable to be significantly associated with child abuse. Finally, no control variable modified the interaction between the family violence variables.

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Resilience and Poly-Victimization among Two Cohorts of Norwegian Youth

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health ◽

10.3390/ijerph15122852 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 15 (12) ◽

pp. 2852 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Lihong Huang ◽

Svein Mossige

Keyword(s):

Young People ◽

Physical Violence ◽

Psychological Problems ◽

Childhood And Adolescence ◽

Cultural Resources ◽

Witnessing Violence ◽

Resilience Scale ◽

Victims Of Violence ◽

Using Data ◽

Forms Of Violence

Previous research shows that there is a significant and positive relationship between being a victim of violence and experiencing high levels of psychological problems among young people. Conversely, resilience is negatively associated with psychological problems among young people in general, and this negative association is particularly strong among victims of violence. Our study examines resilience among young people (aged ≥ 18 years) who reported being victims of multiple forms of violence during childhood and adolescence using data from two national youth surveys administered in Norway in 2007 (N = 7033) and 2015 (N = 4531), respectively. We first compared the score of resilience, as measured by the Resilience Scale for Adolescents (READ), and the prevalence of poly-victimization, as identified by the number of young people in our study who were exposed to three of the four forms of violence (i.e., non-physical violence, witnessing violence against parents, physical violence, and sexual abuse). Second, we tested our hypothesis using our data and found that resilience—individuals’ capacity to handle adversity, as well as their use of social and cultural resources when facing adversity—moderates the association between poly-victimization and the onset of psychological problems.

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