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The Dark Triad (DT) personality traits (i.e., Machiavellianism, narcissism, and psychopathy) are among the antecedents of workplace mistreatment (WM). However, we have limited knowledge regarding how the DT traits of victims affect their responses to WM. We investigated the moderating effects of the DT in the links of mobbing and abusive supervision with job satisfaction, organizational citizenship behaviors (OCBs), and counterproductive work behaviors (CWBs). Data were collected from 715 working adults. Employees who scored high on narcissism were more likely to have higher scores on CWBs than those who scored low on narcissism in case of mobbing and abusive supervision. Individuals who scored high on psychopathy reported higher levels of job satisfaction under high mistreatment conditions than those who scored low on psychopathy. Individuals who scored high on Machiavellianism reported higher levels of OCBs and lower levels of CWBs under high mistreatment than those who scored low on Machiavellianism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Most studies on workplace bullying have been focused on victims and their perceptions. Recently, a few number of studies have directly evaluated perpetrators, unfortunately, without a validated questionnaire. Based on the NAQ-RE (Moreno-Jimenez et al., 2007), this article reports a study on a Spanish adaptation and validation of a negative acts questionnaire focused on perpetrators (NAQ-P). Using a sample of 521 employees from 20 organizations of different sectors across Spain, data about victimization, perpetration, and transformational leadership, gender and occupational status were collected. The results showed that a model of two factors (person-related -3 items-, and work-related -4 items- workplace bullying perpetration) showed the best fit in comparison to the other tested models. Moreover, the results showed the questionnaire has good internal consistency and construct and discriminant validity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Forensic psychology represents a classic psychology specialty among Anglo-Saxon countries which is becoming more and more important in Spain nowadays --it is becoming usual that forensic experts advise courts and judges on psychological issues. Furthermore, psychologist's intervention as a forensic expert in social jurisdiction is a novel activity compared to other fields such as criminal, under aged and families. Therefore, expertise on preventive actions and work psychology are very useful, not to say that a comprehensive training in clinical psychology (evaluation, psycho-diagnosis, psychopathology, etc.) is a key ingredient of a skilled forensic expert. This paper is a report by forensic and work psychology experts on mobbing, a subject matter that can be approached in Spain from different jurisdictions --civil, criminal, social, administrative. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes the prevalence of mobbing and other ways of violence among organizations by means of the methodology of assessment and diagnosis used in the Spanish "Cisneros" studies over the last 10 years --with particular reference to "Cisneros VI". Led by the Cisneros team, this study was developed in November 2005 thanks to an agreement with the Department of Employment and Women of the Madrid Autonomous Community. In this study (the most extensive on mobbing ever in Spain) a survey was administered to a representative sample of 4,250 employees drawn from across industries in the Madrid Autonomous Community. In line with mobbing patterns shown in previous studies by this mobbing research agency, results showed that mobbing was by and large more prevalent among the employees of the service sectors --public administration, social services companies contracted by the Autonomous Community, media and communications and medical services. One out of four employees reported having witnessed mobbing cases in their department. One out of ten labelled themselves as victims of mobbing and over 20 percent reported more than one weekly mobbing behavior during the last 6 months. As for the mobbing patterns, 70 percent of reported mobbing cases were of a hierarchical type, 16 percent were horizontal mobbing and 9 percent were inflicted on a superior by his/her subordinate. By sector, the prevalence is higher in the medical services followed by contracted services and the educational sector. By position, employees, clerks and middle managers are more frequently mobbed. As for the gender, males harass victims regardless of their gender although the mixed gangs tend to inflict mobbing more frequently on women. The risk of mobbing seems also to be directly related to the employee age. Depending on the method used to assess mobbing, different mobbing rates appear. Because of the problem for establishing a baseline for the self labelled victims in anti-mobbing protocols (in order to implement prevention programs) we used the Cisneros Barometer. The most frequently reported mobbing behaviours are shown, along with damages significantly correlating in the clinical scales. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]