Parenting Journal · Volume 1 · Issue 4 · Licensed source edition
Network analysis of workplace mobbing, work–family conflict, and mental health in adults from the general population
Originally published 2026-01-12 · Frontiers in Sociology
Frontiers Media SA · DOI 10.3389/fsoc.2025.1704409 ↗
Working-family evidence
Work, care and the whole person.
Relevant to decisions about a respectful-workplace review that considers family spillover; the original evidence concerns 345 employed Peruvian adults in public and private sectors.
Directly examines work and family life, parenting, caregiving or employment policies for families.
Editorial reading guide · Respect
Can disrespect at work follow someone home?
This reading brings workplace mobbing, directional work-family conflict and mental-health networks into the respect pathway. The cross-sectional psychological network study offers a specific workplace lens on how employment and family life meet.
Study context
345 employed Peruvian adults in public and private sectors
Age / stage: Adults, mean age 33
Read with three questions
- How did the researchers define and assess mobbing, family-work conflict and symptom measures?
- What does the study design allow us to conclude about network centrality compared with causal influence?
- What would need to be checked before adopting a respectful-workplace review that considers family spillover?
Keep the limits in view
Network associations in cross-sectional self-reports cannot establish causal targets, diagnoses or the effects of a specific anti-bullying intervention.
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Javier Hildebrando Espinoza Escobar; Jonatan Baños-Chaparro; Tomás Caycho-Rodríguez; Fabio Cesar Saldivar Celis (2026). Network analysis of workplace mobbing, work–family conflict, and mental health in adults from the general population Frontiers in Sociology. https://doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2025.1704409
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