This study extends the stress literature by exploring the relationship between family incivility and job performance. We examine whether psychological distress mediates the link between family ...incivility and job performance. We also investigate how core self-evaluation might moderate this mediated relationship. Data from a 2-wave study indicate that psychological distress mediates the relationship between family incivility and job performance. In addition, core self-evaluation moderates the relationship between family incivility and psychological distress but not the relationship between psychological distress and job performance. The results hold while controlling for general job stress, family-to-work conflict, and work-to-family conflict. The findings suggest that family incivility is linked to poor performance at work, and psychological distress and core self-evaluation are key mechanisms in the relationship.
This study extended incivility research beyond the confines of the workplace by exploring the relationships between incivility, work-to-family conflict and family support. Data collected from 180 ...employees from various organizations in Singapore showed that incivility is not a rare phenomenon in Asian cultures. Employees experienced more incivility from superiors than coworkers or subordinates, and these experiences were related to different outcomes. Coworker-initiated incivility was associated with decreased coworker satisfaction, increased perceptions of unfair treatment, and increased depression. On the other hand, superior-initiated incivility was associated with decreased supervisor satisfaction and increased work-to-family conflict. Results also revealed that employees with high family support showed stronger relationships between workplace incivility and negative outcomes, compared with employees with low family support.
Abstract
Objectives
Despite the widespread adoption of teleconsultations amid the COVID-19 pandemic, their safety in SLE patients has not been evaluated. Here, we examined subsequent disease activity ...and flares among SLE patients who received teleconsultation vs in-person consultation. To discern differences in physicians’ prescription behaviour during both forms of consultations, we compared corticosteroid dose adjustments.
Methods
We studied adult SLE patients who were seen between 1 February 2020 and 1 February 2021. At each patient-visit, rheumatologists utilized phone/video teleconsultation or physical consultation at their discretion. Disease activity was assessed with SLE Disease Activity Index 2000 (SLEDAI-2K) and flares were defined by the SELENA-SLEDAI Flare Index (SFI). We derived a propensity score for patients who were chosen for physical consultation. Multivariable generalized estimation equations were used to analyse SLEDAI-2k and flare at the next visit, adjusted for the propensity score.
Results
A total of 435 visits were recorded, of which 343 (78.9%) were physical visits and 92 (21.1%) were teleconsultations. The modality of consultation did not predict flare OR for physical consultation (95% CI) 0.42 (0.04, 5.04), P =0.49 or SLEDAI-2k at the next visit estimate of coefficient for physical consultation (95% CI) −0.19 (−0.80, 0.43), P =0.55. Adjustments of prednisolone dosages were comparable between the two forms of visits OR for physical consultation (95% CI) 1.34 (0.77, 2.34), P =0.30.
Conclusion
SLE disease activity and flares at the subsequent visit were similar between teleconsultations and physical consultations. Medication prescription behaviour, determined using adjustment in corticosteroid dosages, was not different between the two forms of visits.
•We investigate incivility using a controlled experimental team-task design.•Self-blame mediates the relationship between experienced incivility and task outcomes.•Witnessing incivility toward a ...fellow team member reduces the harmful task-related effects.•We integrate into a single model both mediating and moderating processes.
Although episodes of workplace incivility can lead to deleterious personal and performance outcomes, we suggest that differences in how incivility is experienced (i.e., as a singled-out target, or in the company of another who is also treated uncivilly) can have significant impact on the cognitions and behaviors that follow uncivil treatment. Drawing from Sociometer Theory, we test the notion that sharing the experience of incivility with another target can greatly diminish individual-level harm, and demonstrate that causal beliefs related to self-blame mediate consequent downstream effects. Using an experimental design within a team task environment, we found that experiencing incivility from a team member increased participants’ rumination about mistreatment, task-related stress levels, and psychological withdrawal behavior. Moreover, we found support for conditional indirect effects, such that viewing mistreatment of a fellow team member at the hands of the same uncivil team member (shared incivility) attenuates the harmful effects of incivility, by reducing self-blame.
We report an experience-sampling study examining the spillover of workplace incivility on employees’ home lives. Specifically, we test a moderated mediation model whereby discrete emotions transmit ...the effects of workplace incivility to specific family behaviors at home. Fifty full-time employees from southeast Asia provided 363 observations over a 10-day period on workplace incivility and various emotional states. Daily reports of employees’ marital behaviors were provided by the spouses each evening. Results showed that state hostility mediated the link from workplace incivility to increased angry and withdrawn marital behaviors at home. Also, trait hostility served as a moderator such that the relationship between workplace incivility and hostile emotions was stronger for employees with high trait hostility.
Personal and Workgroup Incivility Lim, Sandy; Cortina, Lilia M; Magley, Vicki J
Journal of applied psychology,
01/2008, Letnik:
93, Številka:
1
Journal Article
Recenzirano
This article develops a theoretical model of the impact of workplace incivility on employees' occupational and psychological well-being. In Study 1, the authors tested the model on 1,158 employees, ...finding that satisfaction with work and supervisors, as well as mental health, partially mediated effects of personal incivility on turnover intentions and physical health; this process did not vary by gender. Study 2 cross-validated and extended these results on an independent sample of 271 employees, showing negative effects of workgroup incivility that emerged over and above the impact of personal incivility. In both studies, all results held while controlling for general job stress. Implications for organizational science and practice are discussed.
•Renal and neurologic manifestations are not significantly increased in asian SLE patients.•Asian males with SLE are at risk of increased risk of renal involvement.•Asian and asian male patients are ...at increased risk of thrombocytopenia versus their counterparts.
Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) in Asians is a unique patient group that has been thought to present with more severe organ involvement in comparison to their non-Asian counterparts. We set out to perform a meta-analysis to compare clinical manifestations between ancestries, with a focus on Southeast Asian ethnicities and gender.
A cross-sectional study was performed in conjunction with a meta-analysis to identify differences in prevalences of SLE clinical manifestations. Searches were conducted on Medline for articles comparing between: (i) Asian and non-Asian ancestry; (ii) Southeast Asian ethnicities (Chinese, Malay and Indian); and (iii) male and female Asians. Using random effects model, effect sizes as odd ratios were pooled with DerSimonian and Laird's model.
A total of 13 articles were identified and pooled together with our study for this meta-analysis. Comparing among patients of Asian with Non-Asian/European ancestries, no significance difference was found in severe organ manifestations such as renal and neurological involvement odds ratio (OR): 1.398, p= 0.320 and OR: 1.224, p= 0.526 respectively. There was significantly greater proportion of Asian SLE patients with thrombocytopenia compared to non-Asian SLE. Chinese SLE patients were less likely to have oral ulcers compared to Indian SLE patients. Lastly, Asian male SLE patients had greater incidence of renal involvement and thrombocytopenia compared to Asian female SLE patients.
Severe SLE manifestations such as renal and neurological involvement were not significantly more frequent in Asian SLE compared to non-Asian/European SLE in this analysis.
This article examined the relationships and outcomes of behaviors falling at the interface of general and sexual forms of interpersonal mistreatment in the workplace. Data were collected with surveys ...of two different female populations (
N
s = 833 and 1,425) working within a large public-sector organization. Findings revealed that general incivility and sexual harassment were related constructs, with gender harassment bridging the two. Moreover, these behaviors tended to co-occur in organizations, and employee well-being declined with the addition of each type of mistreatment to the workplace experience. This behavior type (or behavior combination) effect remained significant even after controlling for behavior frequency. The findings are interpreted from perspectives on sexual aggression, social power, and multiple victimization.
Nodal and Activin are morphogens of the TGFbeta superfamily of signaling molecules that direct differential cell fate decisions in a dose- and distance-dependent manner. During early embryonic ...development the Nodal/Activin pathway is responsible for the specification of mesoderm, endoderm, node, and mesendoderm. In contradiction to this drive towards cellular differentiation, the pathway also plays important roles in the maintenance of self-renewal and pluripotency in embryonic and epiblast stem cells. The molecular basis behind stem cell interpretation of Nodal/Activin signaling gradients and the undertaking of disparate cell fate decisions remains poorly understood. Here, we show that any perturbation of endogenous signaling levels in mouse embryonic stem cells leads to their exit from self-renewal towards divergent differentiation programs. Increasing Nodal signals above basal levels by direct stimulation with Activin promotes differentiation towards the mesendodermal lineages while repression of signaling with the specific Nodal/Activin receptor inhibitor SB431542 induces trophectodermal differentiation. To address how quantitative Nodal/Activin signals are translated qualitatively into distinct cell fates decisions, we performed chromatin immunoprecipitation of phospho-Smad2, the primary downstream transcriptional factor of the Nodal/Activin pathway, followed by massively parallel sequencing, and show that phospho-Smad2 binds to and regulates distinct subsets of target genes in a dose-dependent manner. Crucially, Nodal/Activin signaling directly controls the Oct4 master regulator of pluripotency by graded phospho-Smad2 binding in the promoter region. Hence stem cells interpret and carry out differential Nodal/Activin signaling instructions via a corresponding gradient of Smad2 phosphorylation that selectively titrates self-renewal against alternative differentiation programs by direct regulation of distinct target gene subsets and Oct4 expression.
Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a common bacterial pathogen in the evolution of bronchiectasis in cystic fibrosis. The appearance of resistant strains of pseudomonas is increasing with the earlier and more ...liberal use of a range of anti-pseudomonal antibiotics for the treatment of bacterial chest infections. The rationale for treatment and potential benefits of aggressive treatment of resistant strains of Pseudomonas aeruginosa from early in life are discussed.
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