Disparate Levels of Stress in Police and Correctional Officers: Preliminary Evidence from a Pilot Study on Domestic Violence
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New data from a prevention curriculum project on officer-involved domestic violence reveals significant differences in the reported job stress of Florida's correctional officers when compared to police officers who took the same surveys. The significantly higher reported levels of organizational stress in particular—especially those related to staff and resource shortages and attitudes about leadership—raise concerns about the relationship between organizational stress and the reported drastic budget cuts, hiring freezes, and layoffs experienced by the Department of Corrections in 2009. The surprising disparity has significant implications for policy makers, who should be aware of the high cost of stress in officer health and well-being when making budgetary decisions about the state's rapidly increasing inmate population.
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Summerlin et al. (2010) found high stress levels among American police officers for some operational tasks (e.g., 68% considered paperwork highly stressful and 73% considered handling the public image highly stressful), but other tasks were considered highly stressful only for a few participants (e.g., 16% for activities during days off).
“Summerlin et al. (2010) found high stress levels among American police officers for some operational tasks (e.g., 68% of the sample considered paperwork to be highly stressful and 73% considered handling the public image to be so), but other tasks were considered as highly stressful only for a few participants (e.g., 16% for activities during days off)”
From Burnout and Stress Measurement in Police Officers: Literature Review and a Study With the Operational Police Stress Questionnaire (2020) · cites this paper as Summerlin et al., 2010
The PSQ-Org and PSQ-Op items are not specific to policing and can apply to other PSP professionals; the scales have been used successfully with a wide range of PSP.
“Despite the scale titles, none of the items are specific to policing, such that each item can apply to other PSP professionals; indeed, the scales have been used successfully with a wide range of PSP [28,29,30,31,32].”
From Assessing the Relative Impact of Diverse Stressors among Public Safety Personnel (2020) · cites this paper as [32]
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- Authors
- Summerlin, Z., Oehme, K., Stern, N., & Valentine, C.
- Affiliations
- Florida State University (US)
- Venue
- Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2010-08-31
- Volume
- 20
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 762-777
- ISSN
- 1091-1359 (ISSN-L)
- 1540-3556
- OpenAlex
- W2078940097
- Cited by
- 45
- References
- 25
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 2.18
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Stress and Burnout Research
- Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Policing Practices and Perceptions
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Workplace Health and Well-being
- Keywords
- occupational stress, police officers, correctional officers, domestic violence, organizational stress, staff shortage, leadership attitudes, budget cuts
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