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Too Many Constructs In The Kitchen: Toward A Feature-Based Approach To Mistreatment, Sarah Carver
Too Many Constructs In The Kitchen: Toward A Feature-Based Approach To Mistreatment, Sarah Carver
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The field of workplace mistreatment has grown considerably over the last two decades yet continues to be plagued by construct overload and measurement challenges. Constructs such as incivility, bullying, abusive supervision, and social undermining are definitionally distinct in terms of their frequency, intensity, and intentionality but this is seldom explicitly measured. Across three studies, we created and developed the Features of Mistreatment (FOM) measure to explicitly measure frequency, intensity, and perceived intentionality. In Study 1 (N = 282), we examined the psychometric properties of the initial 28-item FOM measure and revised the subscales to four items each. We found …