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Detection of workplace bullying and its negative impact on psychological well-being
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1This study contributes solutions to the controversy that exists over how to detect possible cases of psychological bullying in the workplace and how to determine the prevalence of this phenomenon.
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2The method employed enables the establishment of three groups of probability of suffering bullying within the workplace context, or three groups of different risk: high, medium, or low.
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3Of a sample made up of 5,000 workers from the Spanish territory, 11.2% present a high probability of suffering a situation of bullying in the workplace.
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4People who suffer this situation have nearly five times more possibilities of developing a generalised anxiety disorder.

To establish the risk of bullying, cutoff points were applied from the short-version of the Negative Acts Questionnaire (S-NAQ ), calculated previously through ROC (Receiver Operating Characteristic) curve analysis, in a representative sample of workers from all Spanish provinces, made up of 5,000 individuals (42.8% men; 56.6% women, and 0.7% not identifying with binary gender). From said sample, 2,095 workers participated, four months later, in a screening test via a generalised anxiety disorder scale (GAD-7 ), which includes normative scores for establishing anxiety levels. A high anxiety level implies that the person is experiencing a broad anxious symptomology that indicates a possible generalised anxiety disorder.