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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.
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Swiss journal of psychologyVolume
77Issue
4Pagination
159 - 172Publisher
Hogrefe PublishingLocation
Boston, Mass.Publisher DOI
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1421-0185Language
engPublication classification
C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journalCopyright notice
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