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Dispositional mindfulness moderates the relationship between occupational stressors and perceived stress among law enforcement personnel.

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Kaplan, Joshua Benjamin, Christopher, Michael S., Bowen, Sarah·2018·Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology

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Law enforcement personnel (LEPs) experience occupational stressors that can result in poor health outcomes and have a negative impact on the communities they serve. Dispositional mindfulness, or receptive awareness and attention to present moment experience, has been shown to negatively predict perceived stress and to moderate the relationship between stressors and negative stress-related outcomes. The current study is an investigation of the moderating role of specific facets of dispositional mindfulness (i.e., nonreactivity, nonjudging, and acting with awareness) in the relationship between occupational stressors and perceived stress in a sample of LEPs. As hypothesized, nonreactivity significantly moderated the relationship between operational stressors and perceived stress, such that LEPs low in nonreactivity exhibited a significant relationship between stressors and perceived stress, whereas those high in nonreactivity did not. Nonjudging also moderated the relationship between organizational stressors and perceived stress; however, unexpectedly, LEPs high in nonjudging evidenced a significant relationship between stressors and perceived stress, whereas those low in nonjudging did not. Potential implications of these findings for LEP stress reduction interventions are discussed.

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  • Kaplan et al. (2017) reported mean values for operational stress among American police officers as 3.47.

    “Kaplan et al. (2017) reported mean values for operational stress (also among American police officers) as 3.47.”

    From Burnout and Stress Measurement in Police Officers: Literature Review and a Study With the Operational Police Stress Questionnaire (2020) · cites this paper as Kaplan et al., 2017

    The Method sections identify a U.S. police-department sample and say the study measured operational stressors. The Results say means appear in Table 1, but the passages available from our copy do not give the operational-stress mean, so 3.47 cannot be verified. The sample also included civilian support staff, not only officers. (LLM, conf=0.76)

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Authors
Kaplan, J. B., Christopher, M. S., & Bowen, S.
Affiliations
Pacific University Oregon (US)
Venue
Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology
Published
2017-12-13
Volume
33
Issue
3
Pages
227-232
ISSN
  • 0882-0783 (ISSN-L)
  • 1936-6469
OpenAlex
W2558106364
Cited by
34
References
85
Citations by year
2026: 4 · 2025: 2 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 5 · 2022: 4 · 2021: 7 · 2020: 6 · 2019: 3 · 2017: 1
FWCI
3.39
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
Funders
National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (R21AT008854)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Stress and Burnout Research
  • Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Workplace Health and Well-being
Keywords
trait mindfulness, occupational stressors, perceived stress, law enforcement officers, non-reactivity, non-judgment, acting with awareness, moderating effect, operational stressors, organizational stressors, stress reduction intervention

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