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Psychometric properties of the German version of the workplace incivility scale and the instigated workplace incivility scale

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posted on 2018-10-01, 00:00 authored by P Jiménez, A Bregenzer, Michael LeiterMichael Leiter, V Magley
© 2018 Hogrefe. The quality of workplace social environments has been widely recognized as having an important role in employees' experience of their workplace, which is confirmed by recent research. The greater frequency of incivility, in contrast to the more intense forms of negative workplace interactions, expands opportunities for understanding the social dynamics of workplaces. Important aspects of this research are potential cultural variations in workplace social behavior. Valid translations of measures for the core constructs are part of the essential infrastructure to support such research endeavors. To assess uncivil behavior at the workplace, we prepared a German translation of the Workplace Incivility Scale and the Instigated Workplace Incivility Scale. Our analysis of the responses from 2,168 Austrian workers indicated that the translation of both scales into German was successful, and that the concept of incivility can indeed be transferred to the Germanspeaking population. The factor solution was comparable to the original version of the scales. Criterion validity coefficients lay in a similar range as the coefficients found in previous studies with Canadian samples. The availability of the scales should stimulate research on incivility among the German-speaking population and can help in organization-diagnostic processes.

History

Journal

Swiss journal of psychology

Volume

77

Issue

4

Pagination

159 - 172

Publisher

Hogrefe Publishing

Location

Boston, Mass.

ISSN

1421-0185

Language

eng

Publication classification

C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal

Copyright notice

2018, Hogrefe AG.