Examining the relationship between perceived organisational support, perceived supervisory support, employee mental illness disclosure, and individual workplace wellbeing.
Research Questions and Hypotheses
Variables
Method
Literature Review Categories
Questions
How does perceived organisational support and perceived supervisory support influence an individual's willingness to disclose a mental illness diagnosis?
How does disclosure and perceived support relate to individual workplace wellbeing?
Hypotheses
Will willingness to disclose a mental illness diagnoses be a moderator between perceived support and individual workplace wellbeing?
Moderation hypotheses
Individuals with high perceived support and a disclosed mental illness diagnosis will have increased individual workplace wellbeing.
Individuals with low perceived support and a disclosed mental illness diagnosis will have decreased individual workplace wellbeing.
Individuals with high perceived support and an undisclosed mental illness diagnosis will have decreased individual workplace wellbeing.
Individuals with low perceived support and an undisclosed mental illness diagnosis will have decreased individual workplace wellbeing.
Support hypotheses
Individuals with a higher level of perceived organisational support will be more willing to disclose a mental illness diagnosis.
Individuals with a higher level of perceived supervisory support will be more willing to disclose a mental illness diagnosis.
Wellbeing hypotheses
Individuals with a higher level of perceived organisational support will have increased individual workplace wellbeing.
Individuals with a higher level of perceived supervisory support will have increased individual workplace wellbeing.
Individuals that disclose their mental illness will have a higher level of individual workplace wellbeing.
Independent Variables
Dependent Variables
Individual Workplace Wellbeing
Perceived Organisational Support
Perceived Supervisory Support
Willingness to Disclose Mental Illness 🚩 not actually sure until after 1+2, independent after? Write as dependent. Primary then contingent research question.
Willingness to Disclose Mental Illness 🚩 \
Grouped by mental illness diagnoses
Employee engagement
Burnout
Commitment
Performance
Design
Participants
Materials
Procedure
Need to do a power analysis 🚩
Any person who is employed
Categorised as diagnosed mental illness
No diagnosed mental illness
suspected mental illness will be discussed as a limitation
Recruitment
University Students
Convenience sampling (who I know)
Police force
St Christophers
Social media
HRINZ distribution
Will discuss mental illness characteristics as a limitation
Context for Mental Illness in New Zealand
Context for Mental Illness at Work
Individual Workplace Wellbeing
Perceived Organisational Support
Perceived Supervisory Support
Willingness to Disclose Mental Illness Diagnosis
Measuring Perceived Organisation Support
Measuring Perceived Supervisory Support
Willingness to Disclose
Measuring Mental Illness Diagnosis :
Measuring Individual Workplace Wellbeing
A tickbox question, "Do you have a formal diagnosis for a mental illness?" Yes or No
Demographics
Standard Demographic Questions
Engagement
Burnout
Commitment
Performance
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Standard Qualtrics recruitment and procedure (at this stage)
Cross-sectional survey design
Between-subjects
diagnosed mentally ill
not diagnosed mentally ill
is it 2 x 2
mental or not-mental
high or low perceived support?
Many questions here 🚩
Objective 1: To determine if perceived organisational support and perceived supervisory support influences an employee’s willingness to disclose a mental illness diagnosis.
Objective 2: To determine if willingness to disclose a mental illness diagnosis and perceived support relates to individual workplace wellbeing.