The health sector is regarded as a sector in which non-negligible amounts of emotional abuse events are seen.
Hospitals are busy and stressful work environments and difficult working conditions, night duties, impossibilities,
low wages of employees especially in public institutions, emotional harassment (mobbing) during academic career
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"Mobbing is an emotional attack. It starts with being the target of a disrespectful and harmful behavior. It can be
described as someone’s forcing another one to quit through creating an aggressive atmosphere by provoking other
people with or without their consent against a person and performing continuous malicious acts, veiled accusations,
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Many victims cannot reflect the mobbing for the fear of losing their positions. Sometimes, the targeted
individuals get highly affected with negative behaviors and lose their health. Many people experience stress as a
result of mobbing, so they even quit their jobs. Most importantly, it reduces the quality of work life, and constitutes
an unhealthy organizational structure (Gokce, 2006).
This research aims to provide the evaluation of the employees of Ataturk State Hospital in Balikesir about
mobbing and to determine the effects of 1st, 2nd and 3rd degree mobbing (bullying) which arises as a result of
harassment and the levels of exposure to these effects.