Date

11-13-2024

Department

School of Behavioral Sciences

Degree

Doctor of Philosophy in Psychology (PhD)

Chair

Donna Busarow

Keywords

Counterproductive workplace behaviors, organizational citizenship behaviors, employment, domestic violence, advocate, personal trauma, workplace conduct

Disciplines

Psychology

Abstract

The influence of a survivor-advocates personal trauma history on their work and ability to cope with its challenges are inadequately understood. This research project aimed to distinguish if there was a significant difference in engagement between survivor-advocates and nonsurvivor-advocates in organizational citizenship behaviors or counterproductive workplace behaviors. Furthermore, this study looked at organizational employment tenure as a factor affecting such engagement. The data for this quantitative research project was collected from a nationwide pool of respondents who worked directly with victims of domestic violence in the United States resulting in a total of 54 participants completing the anonymous survey. Exploring how survivor-advocates’ history of survivorship impacted their engagement in organizational behavior is crucial to creating healthy and supportive workplace environments, particularly if agency tenure is a factor in the engagement frequency of counterproductive workplace behaviors. Key findings of this research noted survivor-advocates had a higher occurrence of engagement in overall organizational citizenship behaviors than nonsurvivor-advocates. Survivor-advocates did not have a higher rate of frequency in counterproductive workplace behaviors than their nonsurvivor-advocate counterparts overall, yet survivor-advocates did report higher engagement in the subdomains of production deviance and theft.

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