Be Friendly, Stay Well: The Effects of Job Resources on Well-Being in a Discriminatory Work Environment

Frontiers in Psychology

Donatella Di Marco¹ 

关键词: discriminatory work environment;    workers’;    well-being;    job resources;    job autonomy;    social support;    occupational medicine;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00413

学科分类：心理学（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

Many studies have focused on the negative effects of discrimination on workers’ well-being. However, discrimination does not affect just victims but also those people who witness discriminatory acts or who perceived they are working in a discriminatory work environment. Although perceiving a discriminatory work environment might be a stressor, the presence of job resources might counteract its negative effects, as suggested by the Job Demand-Resources model. The goal of this study is to test the effect of perceiving a discriminatory work environment on workers’ psychological well-being when job autonomy and co-workers and supervisor support act as mediator and moderators respectively. To test the moderated mediation model data were gathered with a sample of Italian 114 truckers. Results demonstrated that job autonomy partially mediates the relationship between perceiving a discriminatory work environment and workers’ well-being. Main interactional effects have been observed when co-workers support is introduced in the model as moderator, while no main interactional effects exist when supervisor support is introduced. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed.

【 授权许可】

CC BY