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Demographic and workplace characteristics predicting stress and job satisfaction within the police workplace
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Demographic and workplace characteristics predicting stress and job satisfaction within the police workplace

Jeremy D Davey, Patricia L Obst and Mary C Sheehan
Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology, Vol.16(1), pp.29-39
2001
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02802731
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Abstract

police officer organizational change organizational support police work criminal psychology
Much research has been conducted into aspects of the police workplace that contribute to stress for individual officers. The current paper examines the influence of worksplace and job characteristics on both officers' stress and their job satisfaction. Police officers recruited from two divisions of an Australian state police service (n=749) were surveyed. Results show that there was a positive relationship between organizational support and job satisfaction and a negative relationship between organizational support and job stress. Difficulty in dealing with organizational change led to lower job satisfaction and higher levels of job stress. Working long hours led to increased job stress but it did not lead to lower job satisfaction. In contrast, shiftwork led to lowered job satisfaction but it did not lead to job stress. Of particular interest in this study was the finding that the job content factor of dealing with dangerous and unpredictable duties was not predictive of job stress but in fact led to higher job satisfaction.

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