The physical and psychological correlates of job burnout in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police

Stearns, Gerry M.; Moore, Robert J.

doi:10.3138/cjcrim.35.2.127

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“…Because these studies only examine violence within police families, it is unknown whether work-related stress contributes to physical aggression toward other people in proximity to a strained officer. For example, some research finds that distressed and burned out officers are more likely to use violence during interactions with citizens (Stearns & Moore, 1993).…”

Section: Criminal and Deviant Behavior By Police Officersmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Influence of Early Strain on Later Strain, Stress Responses, and Aggression by Police Officers

Kurtz

Zavala

Melander

2014

Criminal Justice Review

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Research has established policing as one of the most stressful occupations and that work-induced strain can lead to various criminal and negative outcomes. This study extends existing literature in criminology and criminal justice by applying general strain theory to police stress. This study examines the influence of prior strain—namely, child abuse and interparental violence—on officer critical incident strain, psychological–physiological stress responses, and officer-on-officer aggression. Data analyzed the stress responses of 1,104 police officers from the Police Stress and Domestic Violence in Police Families in Baltimore, Maryland, and results show that prior strain events influence respondents in three key ways. First, those reporting exposure to childhood strain had higher work-related strain scores. Second, youthful strain events and work-related critical incident strain are associated with increased stress. Finally, child abuse exposure and critical incident strain increases the odds of officer-on-officer violence among participants. The sample offers several important implications for strain theory because it includes only adult respondents and offers some degree of control for serious adolescent delinquency.

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Section: Criminal and Deviant Behavior By Police Officersmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Influence of Early Strain on Later Strain, Stress Responses, and Aggression by Police Officers

Kurtz

Zavala

Melander

2014

Criminal Justice Review

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“…Many theories of burnout have been associated with job roles characterized by role conflict, role ambiguity, role overload, workload, work pressure, feelings of frustration, and low morale (Bakker, Demerouti and Euwema, 2005;Lee and Ashforth, 1996;Savicki, Cooley and Gjesvold, 2003). Research also shows that stress and burnout are linked to a range of negative individual outcomes including depression, mental strain, psychosomatic complaints (e.g., heart circulation disturbances), health problems, and high risk or problematic patterns of alcohol consumption (Burke and Mikkelsen, 2006;Demerouti et al, 2002;Gana and Boblique, 2000;Stearns and Moore, 1993). Similarly, occupational and organi-zational characteristics such as the extent to which rewards and punishments are linked to performance, and the context of the job (e.g., nature of the employee-client relationship), appears to relate to higher levels of burnout (Lee and Ashforth, 1996;Whitehead, 1987).…”

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Organizational Commitment and Job Satisfaction among Teachers during Times of Burnout

Nagar¹

2012

Vikalpa: The Journal for Decision Makers

134

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Organizations want to maximize productivity by minimizing stress, as increased levels of stress and burnout may have significant implications for organizational performance such as reduced job satisfaction and lowered organizational commitment. Also certain occupations are linked more to burnout than the others. The present exploratory study undertakes the examination of burnout among teachers in the university as they are an essential part of a successful educational system. Organizational commitment is essential for retaining and attracting well qualified workers as only satisfied and committed workers will be willing to continue their association with the organization and make considerable effort towards achieving its goals. This work is significant for two reasons: It attempts to develop and test a model for burnout and its effect on job satisfaction and the subsequent effect of job satisfaction on organizational commitment; It signifies one of the first attempts to develop a linkage among burnout, job satisfaction, and organizational commitment among teachers. This study examines three factors of burnout as potential antecedents of 153 university teacher's job satisfaction, and the effect of increased job satisfaction on commitment among employees toward their organization. Structural Equation Modeling results indicate that: All three factors of burnout namely, depersonalization, reduced personal accomplishment, and emotional exhaustion lead to decreased job satisfaction. Greater job satisfaction contributes significantly towards an increase in organizational commitment. Out of the three dimensions of burnout, female teachers score higher on emotional exhaustion and reduced personal accomplishment indicating that they could not work the way they wanted to with their students or that they have less influence on their students, whereas male teachers score higher on depersonalization. In terms of job satisfaction, females show higher levels of job satisfaction as compared to men, perhaps due to low expectations about job status among female teachers as compared to male teachers. A perceived difference in alternative employment opportunities between genders offers an explanation to the finding that women are more committed to organizations than their male counterparts The results of the study have implications for the management of educational institutions as employee burnout may have important consequences for the organization. Since teachers are a valuable resource to educational institutes, management must invest significant resources in the assessment of their working environment, both mental and physical, to maximize the quality of service delivery.

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“…police managers (Loo, 1994(Loo, , 2004 or prison caseworkers and correction officers (Carlson and Thomas, 2006), or a mixture of categories (e.g. Stearns and Moore, 1993). It seems important to keep note of the specific professional category studied within the police because, as described below, previous research has reported differences in stress and burnout between different categories of workers within the police force (e.g.…”

Section: Stress In Police Workmentioning

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Decision‐making styles, stress and gender among investigators

Salo

Allwood²

2011

Policing: An International Journal of Police Strategies &Amp; Management

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Purpose -The purpose of this study is to analyze the relationship between police investigators' decision-making styles, degree of judgmental self-doubt and work conditions, on the one hand, and their wellbeing, stress, burnout tendency and sleep quality, on the other. Design/methodology/approach -The study concerns investigative police officers (n ¼ 203). Decision-making styles were measured by Scott and Bruce's General Decision Making Style scale (GDMS), and judgmental self-doubt by Mirels et al.'s Judgmental Self-Doubt Scale (JSDS). Wellbeing was measured by the Satisfaction With Life scale (SWL), and stress and burnout tendency by the Perceived Stress Questionnaire (PSQ) and a scale for Performance Based Self-Esteem (PBS). Questions on sleep quality and work conditions were also used. Findings -High values on the decision-making styles Avoidant (tries to avoid making decisions) and Dependent (dependent on advice from others before important decisions) were associated with higher PBS, higher PSQ and poorer sleep quality. In addition, the Avoidant style was associated with lower SWL. Both the Dependent and the Avoidant styles were associated with higher influence experienced by others in the investigative work. Hierarchical regression analyses showed that JSDS explained the outcome measures better than the Dependent and the Avoidant decision-making styles. Gender analyses showed that male investigators showed higher values on Rational decision-making style ("exhaustive information search" and "logical evaluation of alternatives") and female investigators higher values on the Dependent decision-making style. Female investigators also evidenced a higher degree of stress and performance-based self-esteem.Research limitations/implications -The data were collected in a Swedish context and may not be fully generalizable to other countries. Practical implications -These results suggest the need to individualize training programs that seek to ameliorate stress and burnout. Originality/value -This paper furthers understanding of the relation between decision-making styles and wellbeing and stress in police investigators.

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The physical and psychological correlates of job burnout in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police

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The Influence of Early Strain on Later Strain, Stress Responses, and Aggression by Police Officers

The Influence of Early Strain on Later Strain, Stress Responses, and Aggression by Police Officers

Organizational Commitment and Job Satisfaction among Teachers during Times of Burnout

Decision‐making styles, stress and gender among investigators

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