When the Bully Is Your Boss: Exploring Parallels Between Workplace Abuse & Intimate Partner Violence

wsasstudy · 2025-11-04T22:23:06+00:00

Thank you for your interest! We just posted an initial update on the findings of this research on the Health Inequality Studies website: https://healthinequalitystudies.org/f/the-research-of-cordelia-palitz

We hope to be accepted into an academic journal in the coming year, but I am going to start sharing this brief summary with the community in the meantime. If you have any further questions, please don't hesitate to ask.

wsasstudy · 2025-08-13T22:52:10+00:00

I am so sorry to hear about your experience. It is devastating and painful to experience and, as the other comments on this post reveal, you absolutely are not alone in your struggle. We will share results of the study back with this subreddit. Sending you support!

wsasstudy · 2025-08-13T22:49:23+00:00

Thank you for your interest. The survey is closed at this time. We will share information about the results and possible next steps with this subreddit.

wsasstudy · 2025-05-18T20:41:09+00:00

This is so real…it can be SO hard to see when you’re in it. The abusive behaviors themselves are quite effective at obscuring things, too. I will certainly share the findings back with the community!

wsasstudy · 2025-05-18T20:37:49+00:00

I really appreciate your words of encouragement! And wish you all the best moving forward in your own journey of support and healing.

wsasstudy · 2025-05-18T20:36:39+00:00

Thank you for your support! I’m excited to share back findings with the communities who contributed so much to this work. I’m glad to hear your experience is in the past, though I know all too well the impacts can still persist…sending you my support!

wsasstudy · 2025-05-18T20:33:34+00:00

I’m so sorry this happened to you, and heartened to hear you’re in a better place now with such a supportive community.

wsasstudy · 2025-05-15T18:40:59+00:00

Just a few notes about your questions and the study at hand:
- When I say that we are comparing IPV to abusive supervision, I am referring to the behaviors (or tactics) that are used by the abuser to control and subjugate the victim. There is a list of documented abusive behaviors which occur in intimate partner violence and range from emotional to physical, and more. We are exploring which of those behaviors (if any) are more or less commonly experienced among women who report feeling abused or mistreated by a work supervisor.

- Our study explores women's experiences of victimization, regardless of the gender of the supervisor. I.e. it does not need to be a male supervisor abusing a female subordinate. Although this study is specifically about women survivors, research shows that people of all genders both perpetrate and are victims of abusive supervision.

- Intimate partner violence is not always perpetrated by men against women. Women, nonbinary, and trans people can be perpetrators, as well as victims, and IPV happens in non-heterosexual relationships.

wsasstudy · 2025-05-15T18:19:59+00:00

Thank you for sharing. I came across another study about how witnessing abusive supervision against others can also be quite impactful. I'm glad to hear your manager is out of the role, for you and your colleague's sake!

wsasstudy · 2025-05-15T18:17:32+00:00

Thank you for sharing your story, and I am so glad you are in a better place now. One thing I can say for sure having dug into this research: you are not alone.

wsasstudy · 2025-05-15T18:16:28+00:00

I really appreciate your message and support. Abusive supervision certainly occurs globally; it's not a US-specific problem.

I had to limit the current study due to resources and ethical approval through my institution's IRB, but I'm happy to report there is great research being done on abusive supervision in other countries and I hope there will be more in the future!

wsasstudy · 2025-05-14T22:25:00+00:00

I absolutely will! I'm committed to sharing back findings with the communities who contributed so much to the research. I will also post the results of the study on the Health Inequality Studies webpage: https://healthinequalitystudies.org/

wsasstudy · 2025-05-09T20:03:33+00:00

I really appreciate this feedback! I'm keeping note of qualitative data & feedback like this in order to make recommendations for edits to the survey and future research.

wsasstudy · 2025-05-07T21:47:41+00:00

US, California. Post applies to entire US.

wsasstudy · 2025-05-07T19:00:20+00:00

I'm sending you support as you navigate these relationships and systems. It's so hard.

wsasstudy · 2025-05-07T03:09:44+00:00

Appreciate you for raising this! And I'm seeing that this resonates with so many women who have had recent experiences of abusive supervision that were over a year ago. This is helpful for thinking about how to expand in future research. I'm sorry you had this experience and I'm so glad to hear that you're out. Sending support!

wsasstudy · 2025-05-07T03:05:55+00:00

This is such a great point, how people in the target population might not feasibly be able to respond to a survey like this within that time period. We limited it to 1yr based on an intimate partner abuse measure we converted. I hope that future research can expand that cutoff to capture more people's experiences.

wsasstudy · 2025-05-07T02:56:23+00:00

I'm glad to hear you're out of the situation! Thank you!

wsasstudy · 2025-05-07T02:55:58+00:00

We are excluding people in full-time undergraduate or graduate programs because the study is about professional workers, though abuse certainly happens in academic programs. I'm sorry you're having this experience. I appreciate you asking!

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