The phenomenon of mobbing among university employees

Abstract

The objective of this article is to carry out a description of mobbing -workplace bullying- within the university context. There are few studies which have focused their interest in this problem into the higher educational sector and it can explain the great difficulties for characterizing and defining the phenomenon into the university context. In this work, we present results about incidence taxes, most frequent mobbing behaviours and the effects on victims in order to characterize and define the problem. At the same time, we try to know about the influence of spicific variables as age, gender or time of exposition to mobbing. In this sense, and in agreement with other studies, we found statistical differences related to victims' gender. In the same way, the results point out that frequency and duration of mobbing situations affects negatively to victim provoking an aggravation of the effects derived from mobbing. © 2008 Departamento de Psicologia - Universidade Estadual de Maringá.