Nathalie Przygodzki-Lionet

Workplace Bullying and Victims’ Prosocial or Antisocial Behaviors: What Are the Effects on Equity, Responsibility Judgments, and Help Giving?

According to Weiner’s model, help giving has various determinants such as social and individual causes, affective reactions, and responsibility. The aim of this study was (1) to examine the influence of bullying acts, the victim’s behavior at work, and revictimization on equity judgments and the perceived responsibility of perpetrators and victims; and (2) to test the determinants of help decisions. Twelve vignettes of bullying at work submitted to 133 participants varied according to the severity of bullying, the victim’s pro- or antisocial behaviors, and the victim’s antecedents. The results showed that the situation was judged less equitable, the victim less responsible, and the perpetrator more responsible, and the intention of help was increased, (1) when the perpetrator’s acts were serious, and (2) when the bullied person had shown prosocial behavior versus antisocial behavior. The help increased more (1) when the perpetrator’s acts were harmful and (2) when the victim had shown prosocial behaviors.

Approche psycho-victimologique de la violence au travail Présentation d’un modèle théorique

Resume L’apport du present article consiste a presenter un modele theorique transactionnel visant a mettre en exergue l’influence differenciee de scenarii agressifs, inherents au travail, sur l’expression d’un etat de vulnerabilite. Cette fragilite, determinee de maniere specifique par l’atteinte d’un seuil de tolerance, serait caracterisee par la manifestation de consequences physiologiques, psychologiques et relationnelles deleteres. Celle-ci dependrait en outre de la connexite entre les proprietes de l’evenement aversif et quatre mediateurs sociocognitifs : l’evaluation sociale du stresseur, les strategies de coping, la valeur accordee a la sphere professionnelle et la perception du partage social des emotions. Au-dela de l’approche comprehensive de l’ « etre victime » et bien qu’il requiert d’autres demarches empiriques (Forte, Przygodzki-Lionet, Masclet, & Nyock-Illouga 2007a), ce modele propose une grille de lecture quant au processus de recherche de sens dans lequel se fige la victime.