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COPING WITH THE OCCUPATIONAL STRESSORS OF POLICE WORK: A STUDY OF SCOTTISH OFFICERS

✍ Scribed by BIGGAM, FIONA H. ;POWER, KEVIN G. ;MACDONALD, RANALD R.

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 1997
Tongue: English
Weight: 124 KB
Volume: 13
Category: Article
ISSN: 0748-8386
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1099-1700(199704)13:2<109::aid-smi724>3.0.co;2-h

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✦ Synopsis

The Coping Scale of the Occupational Stress Indicator (OSI) 16 was administered to a group of serving Scottish police ocers (N 699) in order to examine the coping skills they might employ in dealing with routine police work. Dierences in coping style according to age, gender and rank were observed. Overall, a preference for more problem-focused, direct action coping strategies was apparent. In particular, ocers displayed a preference for balancing the demands of work and home as a means of coping with the self-perceived stressors of routine police work. No signi®cant correlation was found between the OSI coping scales and psychological distress as measured by the GHQ-28; however, some small eects were apparent in relation to rank, gender and age.

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