Assessing Psychological Violence and Harassment at Work: Reliability and Validity of the Japanese Version of the Inventory of Violence and Psychological Harassment (IVAPT) Comparing NAQ‐R and LIPT. Issue 2 (28th June 2013)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Moreno, Manuel Pando; Beltrán, Carolina Aranda; Tsuno, Kanami; Inoue, Akiomi; Kawakami, Norito
• Is Part Of: Journal of occupational health. Volume 55:Issue 2(2013)
• Page Start: 108
• Page End: 119
• Publication Date: 2013-06-28
• Subjects: Inventory of Violence and Psychological Harassment (IVAPT) -- Negative Acts Questionnaire -- Occupational health -- Psychological harassment at work -- Validation -- Workplace bullying; Medicine, Industrial -- Periodicals; Industrial hygiene -- Periodicals; Medicine, Industrial; Occupational Diseases; Occupational Exposure; Occupational Health; Occupational Medicine; Periodicals; Periodical; Electronic journals; 613.62
• DOI: 10.1539/joh.12-0231-OA
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1341-9145

Abstract

Abstract : Assessing Psychological Violence and Harassment at Work: Reliability and Validity of the Japanese Version of the Inventory of Violence and Psychological Harassment (IVAPT) Comparing NAQ‐R and LIPT: Manuel PANDO MORENO, et al . Institute of Research on Occupational Health, University of Guadalajara, Mexico— Objective: The objective of this study was to examine reliability and validity of the Japanese version of the Inventory of Violence and Psychological Harassment (IVAPT) (Pando, 2006), a 22‐item measure of psychological harassment at work and presence and intensity of psychological violence widely used in Latin American countries. Methods: The IVAPT was translated into Japanese, and the translation was amended through a small pretest and a back‐translation and finalized. A total of 1, 810 out of 4, 072 civil servants completed a questionnaire including the IVAPT. Results: Cronbach's alpha of the scale was 0.97 for psychological violence and 0.94 for psychological harassment at work. An exploratory factor analysis showed that the first factor explained 64.5% of the total variance. Data did not well fit to previously reported one‐or three‐factor structures. Psychological violence and harassment at work were more frequent among older respondents. Intensity of psychological violence was well concordant with other scales of workplace bullying, i.e., Leymann Inventory of Psychological Terrorization (LIPT) and Negative Acts Questionnaire‐Revised (NAQ‐R), and psychological harassment at work was well concordant with the NAQ‐R. Conclusions: The Japanese version of the IVAPT showed high internal consistency reliability. While the first factor explained a large proportion of the variance, the IVAPT seems to have a unique factor structure in the Japanese sample. Concurrent validity of the IVAPT was supported by the comparison with the other scales.