Indonesian Psychological Research
Vol. 6 No. 2 (2024)

Validation of Workplace Bullying Scale on the Bangladeshi Adults

Mollika Roy (University of Dhaka)
Ummay Salma Ruma (University of Dhaka)
Barun Kummer Bhattacharja (Narayanganj College)



Article Info

Publish Date
30 Jul 2024

Abstract

The present study aims to adapt a workplace bullying scale in Bengali that will enable us to assess workplace bullying precisely in the Bangladeshi job sector. Previous workplace bullying studies identified two elements on the WB scale, namely work-related and person-related. In the adapted version of the WB scale, these components are conceptually comprehensible and comparable to the original scale. We have performed different psychometric analyses to adapt the WB scale to Bengali. Item analysis tests were executed using exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis. Findings from both of these tests were satisfactory for the test items. Next, we performed reliability tests using Cronbach’s alpha to assess internal and external reliability to assess inter-rater reliability. The scale demonstrates a satisfactory internal and external reliability level, indicating consistency. Finally, a convergent validity test was performed by comparing the obtained WB and well-being scale scores. The significant negative correlation between workplace bullying and well-being enables us to align the theoretical concept of the workplace bullying variable with pertinent variables, demonstrating a reasonable degree of convergent validity of the scale. This adapted WB scale has proved to be an efficient psychometric tool that appropriately measures workplace bullying in Bengali.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

IPR

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Subject

Religion Humanities Education Health Professions Social Sciences

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Indonesian Psychological Research aims at a broad area of questions from theoretical and methodological domains of psychology, as well as applications of psychology to everyday life. We propose to publish original articles, reviews, actualities, preliminary methodological notes etc. Our goal is to ...