Abstract
The stress that arises from workplace discrimination can have a large impact on an employee’s work attitude, their work and life satisfaction, and oftentimes whether or not they stay in a job. Workplace discrimination can also have a considerable influence on employees’ short- and long-term health. However, less is known about the factors that might mitigate or exacerbate the effects of discrimination on health. The current study focused not only on the links between workplace discrimination and health, and but also on the effects of potential moderators of the discrimination-health link (i.e., perceived control, Big Five personality traits, optimism, and coworker/supervisor support). People with high neuroticism, high extraversion and high agreeableness were more negatively affected by workplace discrimination than those low on neuroticism, extraversion, and agreeableness. Perceived control was found to be a protective factor, such that those high in perceived control had fewer chronic illnesses in the context of high levels of workplace discrimination.
Highlights
Specialty section: This article was submitted to Organizational Psychology, a section of the journal Frontiers in Psychology
The current study focused on the links between workplace discrimination and health, and and on the effects of potential moderators of the discrimination-health link
Chronic illnesses, and depression were all correlated in intuitive directions
Summary
Specialty section: This article was submitted to Organizational Psychology, a section of the journal Frontiers in Psychology. Workplace discrimination can have a considerable influence on employees’ short- and long-term health. Employees can face workplace discrimination from a variety of factors, such as their age, gender, and race. Workplace discrimination can have a considerable influence on employees’ short-term and long-term health. Less is known about the factors that might mitigate or exacerbate the effects of discrimination on health. Perceived discrimination is often defined as an individual’s perception of receiving (negative) differential treatment based on some characteristics (e.g., age, gender, race/ethnicity). Personality and Workplace Discrimination perceptions can have large implications for individual’s lives. Discriminatory experiences affect health primarily through the activation of physiological stress systems and can predicts higher systolic blood pressure over the day (Pascoe and Smart Richman, 2009)
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