Herr RM, Li J, Angerer P (2019)
Publication Type: Journal article
Publication year: 2019
Book Volume: 16
Article Number: 790
Journal Issue: 5
The influence of perceived unfairness at the workplace (organizational injustice) on employee health is well established. Several theories explain the unpleasant and stressful nature of the experience of injustice, using trust as a central element. This study examines the effect of trust to supervisor on the association of perceived injustice with vagal tone—an objective marker for stress experience. Questionnaires assessed organizational justice and trust. Vagal tone was measured by indictors of heart rate variability (HRV), which captured parasympathetic (pNN50, RMSSD, and HF) and parasympathetic and sympathetic (SDNN, and LF) regulation. Synergistic effects were tested by linear regressions with interaction terms between organizational justice and trust to supervisor in 38 managers. Organizational justice was related to HRV indicators that reflect in particular the parasympathetic branch (β
APA:
Herr, R.M., Li, J., & Angerer, P. (2019). The synergistic effects of organizational justice and trust to supervisor on vagal tone: Preliminary findings of an empirical investigation. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 16(5). https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16050790
MLA:
Herr, Raphael M., Jian Li, and Peter Angerer. "The synergistic effects of organizational justice and trust to supervisor on vagal tone: Preliminary findings of an empirical investigation." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 16.5 (2019).
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