Affiliations: McLean Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA,
USA | Department of Psychiatry, Sant'Andrea Hospital,
"Sapienza" University of Rome, Italy | Università Europea di Roma, Italy | Center for the Study of Suicide, Blackwood, NJ,
USA | Department of Psychiatry and Psychological Medicine,
Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Note: [] Address for correspondence: Maurizio Pompili, M.D., Sant'Andrea
Hospital, Department of Psychiatry, Via di Grottarossa 1035, 0189 Roma, Italy.
E-mail: maurizio.pompili@uniroma1.it or mpompili@mclean.harvard.edu
Abstract: The aim of this study was to study suicide risk in subjects exposed
to mobbing, that is, systematic psychological harassment in the workplace. Such
psychological harassment, unique to the workplace, threatens both the emotional
well-being and professional ability of its victims. The items of the Minnesota
Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 (MMPI-2) that assess suicide risk were
studied in 102 individuals who were exposed to mobbing. The results indicated
that individuals exposed to mobbing had clear differences on the MMPI-2 from
normative samples. In addition, those who appeared to be at risk for suicide
differed in their scores from those not at risk. Implications for
psychopathology and suicide preventions are discussed.
