This meta-analysis aims to understand the impact of witnessed workplace mistreatment. Bringing together two streams of research, it examines (a) the boundary conditions of observer reactions that reflect a principled moral disapproval of violations of interpersonal justice (i.e., deontic reactions) and (b) the extent to which witnessed mistreatment explains incremental variance in a range of employee outcomes beyond the effects of experienced mistreatment. The results demonstrate that observer psychological and behavioral deontic reactions are not straightforward. For example, while observers have negative reactions toward perpetrators, they fail to intervene and have mixed reactions toward targets. Findings from a series of moderator analyses illuminate the role of perpetrator rank, mistreatment severity, and study context in explaining these disparate observer deontic reactions. Further, although experienced mistreatment explains more variance in most employee outcomes than witnessed mistreatment, witnessed mistreatment still has a unique and sizable contribution. The implications of these findings and future directions for research on witnessed mistreatment are discussed. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).

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了解目睹的工作场所虐待的影响：对观察者道义反应和员工结果的荟萃分析。


这项荟萃分析旨在了解目睹的工作场所虐待行为的影响。它汇集了两个研究流，考察了（a）观察者反应的边界条件，这些反应反映了对违反人际正义的原则性道德反对（即道义反应），以及（b）目睹的虐待在多大程度上解释了员工结果的范围超出了遭受虐待的影响。结果表明，观察者的心理和行为道义反应并不简单。例如，虽然观察者对肇事者有负面反应，但他们未能干预，并对目标有不同的反应。一系列调节分析的结果阐明了施暴者等级、虐待严重程度和研究背景在解释这些不同的观察者道义反应中的作用。此外，尽管经历过的虐待比目睹的虐待更能解释大多数员工结果的差异，但目睹的虐待仍然具有独特且巨大的贡献。讨论了这些发现的意义以及目击虐待研究的未来方向。 （PsycInfo 数据库记录 (c) 2024 APA，保留所有权利）。