Workplace mistreatment results in higher rates of depression and sleep loss in Black employees than white employees according to research from the Indiana University Kelley School of Business in Bloomington.
Indiana UniversityAug 9 2024
Their findings appear in the article, "Taking a Heavier Toll? Racial Differences in the Effects of Workplace Mistreatment on Depression," in the Journal of Applied Psychology. The Kelley School researchers based their findings on the results of two studies. The first study involved a large sample of publicly available data. Months after taking an initial survey, a subset of participants in the publicly available study also completed a clinical depression questionnaire, while others completed nightly self-report measures of sleep quality and wore a sleep-monitoring device to measure sleep quantity.
Black people were more likely to attribute that mistreatment to their race, something that is an enduring, critical aspect of one's identity, which in turn resulted in higher rates of depression. For white employees, mistreatment was less likely to be attributed to race and could more easily be "shaken off," for example, by thinking that the offending person was "just a jerk.
Gonzalez-Mulé, Kelley School professor and chair of management and entrepreneurship and the Randall L. Tobias Chair in Leadership
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