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Publication Date: 2006-Mar
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Well-Being in the Context of Workplace Ethnic Diversity
Enchautegui-de-Jesus, Noemi; Hughes, Diane; Johnston, Kristen E.; Oh, Hyun Joo
Journal of Community Psychology, v34 n2 p211-223 Mar 2006
This research examined the relation between the effects of workplace diversity (defined as the proportion of coworkers of same ethnicity as the respondent) and psychosomatic complaints, psychological well-being, life satisfaction, and job satisfaction. A sample of 648 African American and Latino workers was surveyed in Chicago and New York City. A nonlinear (inverted U-shaped) relationship between co-ethnicity and the outcomes was found, such that poorer psychological functioning was observed among workers with a very small or a very high proportion of co-ethnic coworkers. The importance of disentangling the meaning of diversity in light of occupational segregation issues is discussed. (Contains 2 tables and 1 figure.)
Descriptors: Ethnicity, Equal Opportunities (Jobs), Life Satisfaction, Job Satisfaction, Well Being, Work Environment, Correlation, African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Symptoms (Individual Disorders), Surveys, Mental Health, Regression (Statistics)
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Illinois; New York
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