The authors aim to broaden the understanding of incivility through the lens of bystanders who witness incivility toward women. Integrating attributional ambiguity and emotional contagion theories with the literature on workplace mistreatment, the authors propose that witnessing incivility toward women may negatively impact bystanders.
The authors collected multi-wave data from 324 employees to assess the consequences of witnessing incivility toward women at work for bystanders.
Utilizing a serial mediation model, the authors found evidence that witnessing incivility toward women indirectly increased turnover intentions six weeks later, first through elevated negative affect and then through increased cognitive burnout.
Taken together, this study’s findings suggest that the negative effects of incivility toward women can spread to bystanders and highlight the importance of considering individuals who are not directly involved, but simply bear witness to incivility at work.
Since submission of this article, the following author has updated their affiliation: Isaac E. Sabat is in the Department of Psychology within the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Houston, Houston, Texas, USA.
Arena Jr., D.F., Jones, K.P., Lindsey, A.P., Sabat, I.E., DuBois, H.T. and Tripathy, S.C. (2024), “Trajectories of depletion following witnessing incivility toward women: a time-lagged study”, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print. https://doi.org/10.1108/EDI-06-2023-0184
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