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

Table 2 The person, or people, who carried out the workplace bullying or harassment

Person responsible for the WBH ^a	Total (n = 444)		Women (n = 284)		Men (n = 160)		Chi-square p-value ^b
Person responsible for the WBH ^a	n	W%	n	W%	n	W%	Chi-square p-value ^b
Line manager or another manager	244	53·6	154	52·9	90	54·5	0·6
A colleague	194	42·8	127	42·8	67	42·8	0·5
Client or a customer	57	13·5	37	13·8	20	13·1	0·9
Member of the public	21	5·3	10	2·8	11	8·3	0·1
A member of Human Resources	15	2·8	5	1·2	10	4·6	0·01
A student	10	2·0	9	3·5	1	0·3	0·08

^a Of those who reported experiencing bullying in the past 12 months· Participants could choose more than one response option
^b p-value indicates whether there was a difference between men and women in reporting of who was responsible for the WBH that they experienced

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