Psychological Violence Behaviors Experienced by Disabled Employees at Hacettepe University (Mobbing) and the Effects of These Behaviors

Abstract

Objective: Mobbing reflects as a detaining or intimidating one or more persons in a workplace, which continues in a systematic manner for a certain period of time, harms people's professional status, personality values, social relations or health; malicious, deliberate negative behavior. This study was conducted to determine the psychological violence behaviors of disabled personnel working at Hacettepe University in the workplace and the effects of these behaviors on disabled employees. Material and Methods: 30 disabled people who work in the public participated to the research. The evaluation was conducted between April and May 2014 with a three-part questionnaire. In the first part demographic information of the participants was obtained. In the second part, the psychological violence behaviors they were exposed and in the third part the social, physiological and psychological effects of the violent behaviors they were exposed were questioned. Results: People with disabilities who were included in the study were found to have been most exposed "to interrupt while talking frequently" and "to be humiliated by others". The effect after the applied mobbing behavior was stated as "I feel stressed and tired myself". These effects and behaviors were expressed by 10-16% of individuals. Conclusion: It has been determined that most of the disabled people working at Hacettepe University have not experienced mobbing behavior but a few have experienced deliberately mobbing behavior. We believe that efforts to minimize the effects of mobbing in disabled workers will help prevent mobbing behavior and improve the working environment of disabled people.

Keywords

• disabled
• working
• psychological
• violence