Abstract:
Workplace violence is a serious public problem affecting millions of women
employees each year throughout the world. Researchers have established
the prevalence, nature, and the degree of this violence; however, less is
known about the effect of workplace violence on women’s psychosocial
functioning. This research addresses this knowledge gap by examining (a) the
relationship between sociodemographic variables and workplace violence,
(b) the association between sociodemographic variable and emotional labor,
and (c) the effects of workplace violence on emotional demand and social
relation. This research draws on a sample of women (n = 201) from Dabat
district’s civil service sectors, derived using systematic and proportionally
stratified simple random sampling techniques. Data were analyzed using
univariate analysis, post hoc Dunnett test, and binary logistic regression.
Results show that workplace violence affected women employees without
the discrimination of baseline variables. However, single women (16.43
[±2.91]) who have bachelor degree and above (16.88 [±2.19]) experienced
