Be friendly, stay well: the effects of job resources on well-being in a discriminatory work environment

Many studies have focused on the negative effects of discrimination on workers' well-being. However, discrimination does not affect just victims but also those people who witness discriminatory acts or who perceived they are working in a discriminatory work environment. Although perceiving a di...

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Main Author: Di Marco, D. (author)
Other Authors: Arenas, A. (author), Giorgi, G. (author), Arcangeli, G. (author), Mucci, N. (author)
Format: article
Language:eng
Published: 2018
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10071/16672
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:repositorio.iscte-iul.pt:10071/16672
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Summary:Many studies have focused on the negative effects of discrimination on workers' well-being. However, discrimination does not affect just victims but also those people who witness discriminatory acts or who perceived they are working in a discriminatory work environment. Although perceiving a discriminatory work environment might be a stressor, the presence of job resources might counteract its negative effects, as suggested by the Job Demand-Resources model. The goal of this study is to test the effect of perceiving a discriminatory work environment on workers' psychological well-being when job autonomy and co-workers and supervisor support act as mediator and moderators respectively. To test the moderated mediation model data were gathered with a sample of Italian 114 truckers. Results demonstrated that job autonomy partially mediates the relationship between perceiving a discriminatory work environment and workers' well-being. Main interactional effects have been observed when co-workers support is introduced in the model as moderator, while no main interactional effects exist when supervisor support is introduced. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed.