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Job stress, burnout and coping in police officers: Relationships and psychometric properties of the organizational police stress questionnaire

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dc.contributor.authorQueirós, Cristina
dc.contributor.authorPassos, Fernando
dc.contributor.authorBártolo, Ana
dc.contributor.authorFaria, Sara
dc.contributor.authorFonseca, Sílvia Monteiro
dc.contributor.authorMarques, António
dc.contributor.authorSilva, Carlos F.
dc.contributor.authorPereira, Anabela
dc.date.accessioned2020-09-17T13:38:57Z
dc.date.available2020-09-17T13:38:57Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.description.abstractPolicing is a stressful occupation, which impairs police officers’ physical/mental health and elicits burnout, aggressive behaviors and suicide. Resilience and coping facilitate the management of job stress policing, which can be operational or organizational. All these constructs are associated, and they must be assessed by instruments sensitive to policing idiosyncrasies. This study aims to identify operational and organizational stress, burnout, resilient coping and coping strategies among police officers, as well to analyze the psychometric properties of a Portuguese version of the Organizational Police Stress Questionnaire. A cross-sectional study, with online questionnaires, collected data of 1131 police officers. With principal components and confirmatory factor analysis, PSQ-org revealed adequate psychometric properties, despite the exclusion of four items, and revealed a structure with two factors (poor management and lack of resources, and responsibilities and burden). Considering cut-off points, 88.4% police officers presented high operational stress, 87.2% high organizational stress, 10.9% critical values for burnout and 53.8% low resilient coping, preferring task-orientated than emotion and avoidance coping. Some differences were found according to gender, age and job experience. Job stress and burnout correlated negatively with resilient coping, enthusiasm towards job and task-orientated coping. Results reinforce the importance to invest on police officers’ occupational health.pt_PT
dc.description.versioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionpt_PT
dc.identifier.doi10.3390/ijerph17186718pt_PT
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.22/16270
dc.language.isoengpt_PT
dc.peerreviewedyespt_PT
dc.relationCenter for Psychology at University of Porto
dc.relation.publisherversionhttps://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/17/18/6718pt_PT
dc.subjectJob stresspt_PT
dc.subjectOrganizational stresspt_PT
dc.subjectBurnoutpt_PT
dc.subjectCopingpt_PT
dc.subjectBurnoutpt_PT
dc.subjectPolicept_PT
dc.titleJob stress, burnout and coping in police officers: Relationships and psychometric properties of the organizational police stress questionnairept_PT
dc.typejournal article
dspace.entity.typePublication
oaire.awardTitleCenter for Psychology at University of Porto
oaire.awardURIinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/FCT/6817 - DCRRNI ID/UIDB%2F00050%2F2020/PT
oaire.citation.issue18pt_PT
oaire.citation.startPage6718pt_PT
oaire.citation.titleInternational Journal of Environmental Research and Public Healthpt_PT
oaire.citation.volume17pt_PT
oaire.fundingStream6817 - DCRRNI ID
person.familyNamePereira da Silva Marques
person.givenNameAntónio José
person.identifierU-7458-2017
person.identifier.ciencia-id8811-40B4-D5FC
person.identifier.orcid0000-0002-8656-5023
project.funder.identifierhttp://doi.org/10.13039/501100001871
project.funder.nameFundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
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rcaap.typearticlept_PT
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