Chronic Workplace Harassment Exacerbates Effects of COVID-19 Stressors on Mental Health for Low Income Individuals: Evidence for Stress Sensitization

Workplace harassment is a traumatic occupational stressor that is often chronic in nature. In line with stress sensitization and cumulative adversity models, results suggest that prior chronic exposure to workplace harassment heightens the relations among current stressors and internalizing symptomatology measured over a decade later, particularly for lower income individuals.