AUTHOR=Hamel Jean-FĂ©lix , Iodice Pierpaolo , Radic Klara , Scrima Fabrizio TITLE=The reverse buffering effect of workplace attachment style on the relationship between workplace bullying and work engagement JOURNAL=Frontiers in Psychology VOLUME=14 YEAR=2023 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1112864 DOI=10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1112864 ISSN=1664-1078 ABSTRACT=
Using the Job Demands-Resources model, this study investigates workplace attachment styles as predictors of work engagement and moderators of the well-established disengaging effect of workplace bullying. As a personal resource, we hypothesized that secure workplace attachment would foster work engagement, whereas both types of insecure workplace attachment (i.e., avoidant and preoccupied) would do the opposite. Previous work also led us to expect the relationship between workplace bullying and engagement to be stronger when targets expect it to act as job resource (i.e., secure workplace attachment) and weaker when their working model is consistent with workplace aggression–i.e., reverse buffering effects. Using the PROCESS macro, we tested these hypotheses in a convenience sample of French office employees (