Examining Police Officer Work Stress Using the Job Demands–Resources Model

2017 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 348-367 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Frank ◽  
Eric G. Lambert ◽  
Hanif Qureshi
Keyword(s):  
Role Conflict ◽  
Job Stress ◽  
Work Stress ◽  
Organizational Support ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
Job Demands ◽  
Role Overload ◽  
Police Organizations ◽  
Indian State ◽  
The Impact

Policing has long been recognized as a stressful, emotionally trying, and sometimes dangerous occupation. Job stress is related to several harmful outcomes for officers, and ultimately police organizations. The present study empirically examined the applicability of the job demands–resources model to explain levels of work stress experienced by a sample of police officers in India. Survey data collected from 827 officers in the Indian state of Haryana were examined to determine the impact of five job demands and four job resources on work stress. Our findings suggest that role ambiguity, role conflict, and role overload are associated with higher levels of officer stress, whereas organizational support, formalization, and employee input in decision making are all associated with lower levels of stress. The implications of our findings for policing and the job demands–resources model are also discussed.

scholarly journals The relationship between stressors and police job involvement

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-61 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hanif Qureshi ◽  
Eric G. Lambert ◽  
James Frank
Keyword(s):  
Police Officers ◽  
Job Involvement ◽  
Job Stressors ◽  
Fear Of Victimization ◽  
Workplace Stressors ◽  
Police Organizations ◽  
Indian State ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

Police organizations are tasked with a wide variety of duties, and officers often encounter stressful situations. Past studies have indicated that job stressors are negatively related to job involvement, which, in turn, is positively related to several beneficial outcomes. The present study empirically tested the job demands model with data obtained from a police agency in India. Survey data was collected from 827 police officers in the Indian state of Haryana. Analysis was carried out to determine the impact of job stressors (role overload, role underload, repetitiveness, role ambiguity, fear of victimization, and role conflict) on job involvement. Findings indicate that all stressors except fear of victimization had a negative effect on job involvement. The implications of the findings, for organizations in general and the police in particular, include the need to reduce workplace stressors and improve the work environment.

scholarly journals FACTORS AFFECTING THE WORK STRESS OF POLICE OFFICERS: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW

Psycho Idea ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 112
Author(s):  
Rachma Yuniar Wijayanti ◽  
Hanandita Belva Fauzi
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Justice ◽  
Role Conflict ◽  
Work Stress ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
Job Dissatisfaction ◽  
Role Overload ◽  
Literature Study ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Stress Control ◽  
Quality Sleep

Police officers are vulnerable to experience work stress, whatever the field or function they perform. The purpose of this literature study is to determine the factors that influence work stress on police officers. The journals used for review of this literature study were obtained from one  portal sources, namely Google Scholar. Search journals using keywords; "Work Stress," "Job Stress," "Police officers," "Work Stress Police Officers." "Obtained  five quantitative journals (N = 5) covering all criteria. Based on a review of the five journals, it is known that there are various factors that can influence the existence of work stress namely differences in the characteristics of each individual, the ability of individuals to deal with a problem, coping stress, role ambiguity, role conflict, role overload, exposure to critical incidents, discrimination at work, lack of cooperation among co-workers, and job dissatisfaction, organizational justice (at work, lack of quality sleep, lack of motivation or support from outside, past trauma and low psychological power or stress control that affect the coping used.

scholarly journals Job Stress in Journalism: Interaction between Organisational Support and Job Demands–Resources Model

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 150 ◽  
Author(s):  
Imad Al Muala
Keyword(s):  
Job Stress ◽  
Job Insecurity ◽  
Job Demands ◽  
Hierarchical Regression ◽  
Moderation Effect ◽  
Organisational Support ◽  
Additional Support ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Task Significance

This study aims to analyse the impact of job demands and job resources on job stress among journalists in Jordan. In addition, the moderation effect of organisational support on such relationship is assessed in this research. A questionnaire survey was conducted among journalists working in daily newspapers in Jordan. This study used multiple and hierarchical regression analyses and determined a significant and positive relationship amongst emotional demands, job insecurity, and task significance on job stress. Additionally, organisational support moderated the relationship between task significance and job stress. Results of study revealed that the organisational support moderates the relationship between task significance and job stress. This finding could challenge journalists, newspaper managements and decision-makers in Jordan. When journalists work on sensitive topics and are in conflict areas, they are in need of additional support from newspaper managements to mitigate high job stress and motivate them to produce quality work.

scholarly journals DAMPAK KONFLIK PERAN TERHADAP STRES DAN KEPUASAN KERJA KARYAWAN PT. JOMBANG INTERMEDIA PRESS (JAWA POS RADAR JOMBANG)

2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 105
Author(s):  
Kristin Juwita ◽  
Devy Arintika
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Role Conflict ◽  
Job Stress ◽  
Structural Equation Model ◽  
Work Stress ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Positive Influence ◽  
Equation Model ◽  
Partial Least Square ◽  
Least Square

The purpose of this research is to know the effect of role conflict on employee job satisfaction with job stress as a mediation variable at PT. Jombang Intermedia Press (Jawa Pos Radar Jombang). The research used explanatory research with a quantitative approach to explain relationship variables through hypothesis testing. This study uses questionnaires which is distributed to 30 respondents of PT. Jombang Intermedia Pers (Radar Jombang) with saturated sampling method. The analysis method uses SEM (Structural Equation Model) with PLS (Partial Least Square) 3 . The result of data analysis known has significant positive influence between role conflict on work stress. But, role conflict has a positive effect on job satisfaction, work stress positively influence to job satisfaction, while work stress is not able to mediate between role conflict to job satisfaction. Keyword—Role Conflict, Job Stress, Job Satisfaction Abstrak Penelitian ini bertujuan meneliti pengaruh konflik peran terhadap kepuasan kerja karyawan yang dimediasi stres kerja pada PT. Jombang Intermedia Pers (Jawa Pos Radar Jombang). Jenis penelitian adalah penelitian penjelasan (explanatory research) dengan pendekatan kuantitatif. Pengumpulan data menggunakan kuesioner yang disebarkan kepada 30 karyawan PT.Jombang Intermedia Pers (Radar Jombang) dengan metode sampling jenuh. Metode analisis dibantu oleh SEM (Structural equation Model) dengan alat analisis Pls versi 3. Berdasarkan hasil penelitian menunjukan ada pengaruh positif dan signifikan antara konflik peran terhadap stres kerja. Namun, justru konflik peran berdampak positif terhadap kepuasan kerja, stres kerja juga berdampak positif terhadap kepuasan kerja. Adapun stres kerja tidak mampu memediasi pengaruh konflik peran terhadap kepuasan kerja. Kata Kunci—Konflik Peran, Stres Kerja, Kepuasan Kerja

scholarly journals ROLE AMBIGUITY, CONFLICT AND OVERLOAD AS PREDICTORS OF EMOTIONAL EXHAUSTION: THE MEDIATION EFFECT OF TEACHING SATISFACTION AND AFFECTIVE COMMITMENT

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (36) ◽  
pp. 37-55
Author(s):  
Khalid Faris Alyamy ◽  
Loh Sau Cheong
Keyword(s):  
Special Education ◽  
Role Conflict ◽  
Emotional Exhaustion ◽  
Role Ambiguity ◽  
Mediation Effect ◽  
Role Overload ◽  
Direct Impact ◽  
Affective Engagement ◽  
Teaching Satisfaction ◽  
The Impact

Owing to the emotionally demanding work context, emotional exhaustion is conceived as a general concern in special education. In a group of 216 special education teachers in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, this research has investigated the direct effect of role ambiguity, role conflict, and role overload on teacher’s emotional exhaustion. Participants completed the scales of emotional exhaustion, role conflict, role Ambiguity, role overload, affective engagement, and teaching satisfaction. Structural Equation Modelling Analysis (SEM) has been adopted for testing the hypotheses of this research. Results indicate that role overload had a positive significant direct impact on emotional exhaustion. Similarly, role conflict shows a positive significant direct impact on emotional exhaustion, whereas role ambiguity has a negligible direct impact on emotional exhaustion. The estimation of the indirect path between measurements of role stressors and emotional exhaustion through teaching contentment reveals that teaching contentment mediates the effect of role conflict on emotional exhaustion. The research suggests that there is no intervention effect of teaching contentment on the impact of role overload on emotional exhaustion and the impact of role overload and role conflict on emotional exhaustion is mediated by affective engagement. The research recommends further studies to explore the direct and indirect effect of role ambiguity on emotional exhaustion.

The Impact of Job Characteristics on Burnout Among Chinese Correctional Workers

2016 ◽  
Vol 62 (2) ◽  
pp. 551-570 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaohong Jin ◽  
Ivan Y. Sun ◽  
Shanhe Jiang ◽  
Yongchun Wang ◽  
Shufang Wen
Keyword(s):  
Role Conflict ◽  
Job Stress ◽  
Correctional Officers ◽  
Job Characteristics ◽  
Community Correction ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Role Clarity ◽  
Occupational Burnout ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The Impact

Job burnout has long been recognized as a common occupational hazard among correctional workers. Although past studies have investigated the effects of job-related characteristics on correctional staff burnout in Western societies, this line of research has largely been absent from the literature on community corrections in China. Using data collected from 225 community correction workers in a Chinese province, this study assessed the effects of positive and negative job characteristics on occupational burnout. Positive job characteristics included job autonomy, procedural justice, and role clarity. Negative characteristics included role conflict, job stress, and job dangerousness. As expected, role clarity tended to reduce burnout, whereas role conflict, job stress, and job dangerousness were likely to produce greater burnout among Chinese community correction workers. Male correctional officers were also subjected to a higher level of burnout than their female coworkers. Implications for future research and policy were discussed.

Individual and organizational support

2017 ◽  
Vol 46 (4) ◽  
pp. 750-766 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yvonne Brunetto ◽  
Stephen T.T. Teo ◽  
Rodney Farr-Wharton ◽  
Kate Shacklock ◽  
Art Shriberg
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Support ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
Affective Commitment ◽  
Turnover Intentions ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Management Support ◽  
Discretionary Power ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Red Tape ◽  
The Impact

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine whether management supports police officers adequately, or whether police have to rely on their individual attributes, specifically psychological capital (PsyCap), to cope with red tape and stress. Work outcomes/consequences examined were discretionary power, affective commitment and turnover intentions. Design/methodology/approach A cross-sectional design using a survey-based, self-report strategy was used to collect data from 588 police officers from USA, who are most engaged with the public. The data were analysed using AMOS and a structural model to undertake structural equation modelling. Findings Two significant paths were identified Path 1: management support to red tape to discretionary power to affective commitment and turnover intentions; and Path 2: supervisor relationships to PsyCap to stress to affective commitment and turnover intentions. Further, management support predicted PsyCap, red tape and police stressors. Red tape increased police stressors and turnover intentions. Research limitations/implications The use of self-report surveys is a limitation, causing common methods bias. Using Harmon’s one-factor post hoc test, the authors were able to provide some assurance that common method bias was of no major concern. Originality/value As far as is known, this study is the first to examine, for police officers, how PsyCap impacts upon negative factors (stress and red tape) and enhances positive drivers for employees. Examining the impact of an individual attribute – PsyCap – provides an important piece of the organizational puzzle in explaining the commitment and turnover intentions of police officers. By examining the impact of both organizational and individual factors, there is now more knowledge about the antecedents of police outcomes.

Strategic implications of HR role management in a dynamic environment

2016 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 353-373 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cathy Sheehan ◽  
Helen De Cieri ◽  
Brian Cooper ◽  
Tracey Shea
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Role Conflict ◽  
Strategic Decision ◽  
Strategic Decision Making ◽  
Role Overload ◽  
Environmental Dynamism ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Hr Role ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Role Management

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to consider the impact of human resource (HR) role overload and HR role conflict on the HR function’s involvement in strategic decision making and to examine whether conditions of environmental dynamism moderate the impact of HR role conflict and HR role overload in that relationship. Design/methodology/approach – The authors collected data from two sources, senior HR and top management team (TMT) executives. A total of 180 HR executives and 109 TMT members completed the survey. In all, 102 organisations were included in the sample with matched HR executive and TMT responses. Findings – Results did not support hypothesised negative relationships between HR role management and involvement in strategic decision making but did establish the moderating effect of environmental dynamism, such that these associations were more negative at higher levels of dynamism. Research limitations/implications – The cross-sectional nature of the study precludes making inferences about causality and would need to be replicated with a longitudinal design before stronger inferences could be drawn with regard to the relationships between the variables. A strength of the study however is the use of two sources of data to address the issue of common method variance. Practical implications – The research has implications for the potential value that HR provides in dynamic environments and the risk that HR role conflict and overload pose to the contribution that HR can make during these periods. Originality/value – The research shifts the focus away from the definition of HR roles to considering how these roles are enacted and kept in balance.

scholarly journals Peran Job Insecurity terhadap Stres Kerja dengan Moderator Religiusitas

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 25
Author(s):  
Muhammad Farid Bashori ◽  
IJK Sito Meiyanto
Keyword(s):  
Job Stress ◽  
Work Stress ◽  
Job Insecurity ◽  
Research Result ◽  
Data Retrieval ◽  
Company Performance ◽  
Psychological Reactions ◽  
Psychological Reaction ◽  
The Impact

Stress is one of the psychological reactions that can be in a work situation. Work situations may change at any time in different forms. An employee's psychological reaction to change also varies. Job insecurity arising from changing work situations increases job stress. A company certainly does not want employees to experience work stress that can impact on the decline in company performance. The level of employeereligiosity is expected to reduce the impact of job insecurity. This study aims to determine the role of job insecurity against work stress moderated by religiosity. Job stress as dependent variable, job insecurity as independent variable, and religiosity as moderator. Methods of data retrieval were performed using work stress scale, job insecurity scale, and scale of religiosity. The subjects of this study were 119 employees working in the State Forestry Corporation. The hypothesis proposed in this study is religiosity as a moderator in the relationship between job insecurity with work stress. Moderate and hypothesis testis done by moderate regression analysis. The research result shows religiosity not proved as moderator in relationship between job insecurity with work stress, but directly significant impact to work.

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