Mass psychogenic illness in organizations

An overview

Dados Bibliográficos

ID11921089
AutoresMichael J Colligan (National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, autor correspondente), Lawrence R Murphy (National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, autor correspondente)
Ano1979
Volume52
Fascículo2
Páginas77-90
Data de publicação1979-06-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Occupational Psychology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0305-8107 • E-ISSN: 2056-8142
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.2044-8325.1979.tb00444.x
OpenAlexW2151915895
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas9
Referências citadas10

Published and unpublished reports of mass psychogenic illness, defined as the collective occurrence of physical symptoms and related beliefs among two or more persons in the absence of an identifiable pathogen, are reviewed with particular emphasis on organizational occurrences. A number of factors (e.g. boredom, sex‐role identification, interpersonal conflict, physical stress) are identified as potential precipitating conditions, and the contagion of symptoms is discussed in terms of the convergence–contagion dichotomy in collective behaviour suggested by Milgram & Toch (1969)

Boredom · Distancing · Identification · Psychogenic disease · Humor Studies and Applications · Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders · Workaholism, burnout, and well-being