Positively Resilient: Ancestral Knowledge as Moderating Factor for Black Faculty Facing Workplace Bullying

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Abstract

Black faculty must constantly resist racism, sexism, workplace bullying (WPB), and organizational oppression. Concurrently, many Blacks are strengthening ancestral knowledge (AK) which may minimize racial battle fatigue. Therefore, I gathered data to measure the relationship between resilience, AK, and Black faculty perception’s of WPB. Question 1: What is the relationship between resilience and AK? Question 2: What is the relationship between the perception of WPB and the resilience of Black faculty as moderated by their AK?. First, a correlation confirmed a direct and statistically significant relationship between Black faculty resilience and AK at the p.< .01 level. Second, a multiple regression confirmed an inverse and statistically significant relationship between resilience and the perception of WPB when moderated by AK.

Author

• Leah P. Hollis, Pennsylvania State University