Abstract
Nielsen, M.B., Matthiesen, S.B. & Einarsen, S. (2005). Leadership and interpersonal conflicts: Symptoms of posttraumatic stress among targets of bullying from supervisors. Nordisk Psykologi, 57, 391–415. The present study had two main objectives: First, to identify characteristic management behaviours of leaders who expose their subordinates to negative acts in the form of bullying; and, secondly, to explore possible relationships between perceived behaviours of destructive leadership and symptoms of posttraumatic stress among targets of bullying. The study was based on a survey with 221 respondents, of whom 199 (90%) had been the target of bullying from one or more of their superiors. The inventory ‘Constructive and Destructive Leadership Behaviour’ (Einarsen, Skogstad, Loseth, & Aasland, 2002) was utilized to identify leadership behaviour, while the ‘Impact of Event Scale-Revised’ (Weiss & Marmar, 1997) measured symptoms of posttraumatic stress. Actions associated with tyrannical- and laissez-faire lead...
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