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Workplace violence: Gender and age factors in the search for religious spiritual assistance

Vol. 14, No 4, 2021

Jolita Vveinhardt

 

Vytautas Magnus University,

Kaunas, Lithuania

E-mail: jolita.vveinhardt@vdu.lt

ORCID 0000-0001-6231-9402


Workplace violence: Gender and age factors in the search for religious spiritual assistance

 

Mykolas Deikus

 

Vytautas Magnus University,

Kaunas, Lithuania

E-mail: mykolas.deikus@vdu.lt

ORCID 0000-0003-1718-7740


Živilė Jezerskė

 

Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Vilnius, Lithuania

E-mail: zivile.jezerske@vilniustech.lt

ORCID 0000-0002-3137-8159 


 

Abstract. Although there is ample literature on violence in the workplace, the opportunities for religious organizations to participate in providing assistance to victims remain little investigated. Therefore, in this article, we analyse the circumstances that promote the search for religious spiritual assistance and how this corresponds to the expectations of victims of violence in the workplace. Based on the results of the empirical study, we demonstrate that despite secularization trends, a sufficient value-based foundation still remains, which makes assistance provided by religious organizations potentially acceptable to victims. Contrary to what could have been expected, men reported being victims of violence more often, and the differences between individual age groups were statistically insignificant. The age variable was important only for obtaining information on this type of assistance. Women, meanwhile, emphasized the importance of religious values more than men did, but at the same time, they also showed greater sensitivity to the contextual circumstances on which the decision to seek religious assistance depended. This article presents only  part of the results of a broader scientific study, one that is exclusively related to victims’ gender and age.

 

Received: May, 2021

1st Revision: November, 2021

Accepted: December, 2021

 

DOI: 10.14254/2071-789X.2021/14-4/16

JEL ClassificationM12, M14, M19

Keywords: workplace violence, victim, gender, female victims, male victims, age, religion, spiritual assistance