Prevalence and nature of workplace bullying and harassment and associations with mental health conditions in England: a cross-sectional probability sample survey

Table 1 Prevalence of past-year workplace bullying and harassment (WBH) and sociodemographic characteristics of the sample

		All in paid work^a (n = 3838)		WBH experienced in past year (n = 3394)		No WBH in past year (n = 444)
		n	Weighted %	n	Weighted %	n	Weighted %	p-value^b
Total		3838	100	3394	89·4	444	10·6
Characteristics
Gender	Men	1651	53·2	1490	54·1	160	46·1	0·006
Gender	Women	2189	46·8	1904	45·9	284	53·9
Age group	16–34	1089	37·5	979	38·1	108	32·2	0·06
	35–54	1922	45·5	1675	44·9	247	51·1
	55–70	829	16·9	740	17·0	89	16·6
Ethnicity	White (British and other white)	3433	87·6	3040	87·7	391	86·1	0·02
	Black/Black British	119	3·2	108	3·4	11	2·2
	Asian/Asian British	183	6·4	159	6·5	24	6·3
	Mixed, Multiple, Other	92	2·7	77	2·4	15	5·3
English as first language	Yes	3475	88·5	3076	88·7	397	86·0	0·2
English as first language	No	365	11·5	318	11·2	47	14·0
Marital/ cohabitation status	Married/cohabiting	2385	66·0	2119	65·9	265	67·1	0·9
	Single	923	26·0	804	26·1	118	25·2
	Divorced/separated/widowed	532	8·0	471	8·0	61	7·6
Caring responsibilities	Yes	774	18·9	672	18·5	102	22·1	0·08
Caring responsibilities	No	3066	81·1	2722	81·5	342	77·9
Housing tenure	Owner occupied	2591	66·0	2307	66·3	284	63·8	0·6
	Social renter	408	10·9	351	10·8	57	11·6
	Private or other	818	23·1	719	22·9	97	24·5
Neighbourhood deprivation ^c	Least deprived areas	1644	41·3	1470	41·8	173	36·9	0·07
	Moderately deprived area	805	20·2	713	20·3	92	19·0
	Most deprived areas	1391	38·5	1211	37·8	179	44·0
Serious debt in past year	Yes	281	6·8	231	6·4	50	9·8	0·01
Serious debt in past year	No	3536	93·2	3145	93·5	389	90·2
Can afford to keep home warm	Yes	3573	94·1	3175	94·4	396	91·8	0·04
Can afford to keep home warm	No	234	5·9	192	5·6	42	8·1

^a Adults aged 16 and over living in households in England who were in paid employment in the week prior to data collection, Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey 2014
^b p-value for the association between each characteristic and being bullied in the workplace in the past 12 months prior to data collection
^c Least deprived areas comprise the two least deprived quintiles and most deprived areas comprise the two most deprived quintiles, based on ranking of area-level English Index of Multiple Deprivation scores

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