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New development of the only “Perceived and Experienced Workplace Power Harassment Scale” to measure power harassment unique to Japan.
One of the reasons for the lack of progress in measures against workplace power harassment (hereinafter referred to as “power harassment”) in Japan is the lack of common awareness of power harassment.
In this study, we developed a new highly reliable and valid “Perceivability and Experience of Workplace Power Harassment Scale” to measure the perceivability (an individual's judgment as to whether a certain conduct or situation constitutes power harassment) and experience of power harassment (have you received this yourself, or is it happening in your workplace?), aiming to clarify specific guidelines for judging what acts, attitudes, and conditions constitute power harassment.
As a result of exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis of the power harassment perceivability scores, 18 items were extracted as three factors consisting of 12 items of power harassment behavior (α = 0.977), 4 items of power harassment status (α = 0.923), and 2 items of power harassment attitude (α = 0.886).
The power harassment acts generally covered representative acts of bullying and harassment in domestic and foreign workplaces, while the power harassment status and power harassment attitudes included unique items that appropriately captured the concept of power harassment in Japan and the workplace culture.
The results of this scale suggested that the experience of power harassment can be a risk for the onset of depression and that it is important to create a mutually trusting workplace in order to prevent and control power harassment.
The paper by the authors presenting the development of this scale received the Incentive Research Award from the Japanese Society for Stress Management.
☟Click here for the Workplace Power Harassment Perceived and Experienced Scale.
Power Harassment Questionnaire (1).pdf
Use of the Power Harassment Perceivability and Experience Scale
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Reference document
Momoko NII・Akira TSUDA・Ka TOU・Tomomi YAMAHIRO・Masahiro IRIE Development and Reliability and Validity of the Perceived and Experienced Workplace Power Harassment Scale (2018) Stress Management Research, 14(2), 22-34.
