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Work: attitudes and wellbeing

Workplace Incivility Scale.

WIS

What it measures
Experienced workplace incivility - frequency of rude, condescending, disrespectful low-intensity mistreatment at work
Length and format
7 (original). 5-pt frequency (never ... most of the time) (self-report questionnaire)
Language versions
Adapted internationally - Spanish, Turkish, Chinese, Portuguese and others (approx 15+ langs)
Normative data
No normative data held in our reference library for this instrument. That is a statement about our library, not about the published literature.
Licence
open with attribution

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Reference
Cortina LM, Magley VJ, Williams JH, Langhout RD. Incivility in the workplace: incidence and impact. J Occup Health Psychol. 2001;6(1):64-80.

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