A new approach to evaluating the well-being of police

Juniper, Bridget; White, Nicola; Bellamy, P.

doi:10.1093/occmed/kqq130

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“…For example, Hart, Wearing, and Headey (1993) demonstrated that a police-specific job demands measure significantly contributed to the assessment of the quality of work life and to the psychological well-being of police officers. This observation has also received support from other occupational stress researchers who have tested specific measures of job demands in samples of police officers (Brough, 2004(Brough, , 2005aJuniper, White, & Bellamy, 2010), teachers (Bakker, Hakenen, Demerouti, & Xanthopoulou, 2007;van der Doef & Maes, 2002), dentists (Hakanen, Bakker, & Demerouti, 2005) and firefighters (Tuckey & Hayward, 2011), although not all of these studies included tests of interactions between (specific) measures of job demands and job control/support variables.…”

Section: Generic Job Demands and Occupation-specific Job Demandsmentioning

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Job Demands × Job Control Interaction Effects: Do Occupation-specific Job Demands Increase their Occurrence?

Brough

Biggs

2013

Stress Health

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Despite evidence that the accurate assessment of occupational health should include measures of both generic job demands and occupation-specific job demands, most research includes only generic job demands. The inclusion of more focused occupation-specific job demands is suggested to explain a larger proportion of variance for both direct effects and job demands × job control/support interaction effects, as compared with the inclusion of generic job demands. This research tested these two propositions via a self-report survey assessing key psychological job characteristics administered twice to a sample of correctional workers (N = 746). The research clearly identified that the assessment of correctional-specific job demands (CJD) was more strongly associated with job satisfaction, work engagement, turnover intentions and psychological strain, as compared with an assessment of generic job demands. However, the CJD did not produce a greater proportion of significant job demands × job control/support interaction effects, as compared with the generic job demands measure. The results thereby provide further support for the acknowledged 'elusiveness' of these theoretical interactions. Overall, however, the results did support the inclusion of occupation-specific measures of job demands for the accurate assessment of the health and job performance of high-risk workers. The implications for theoretical discussions that describe how high job demands are moderated by job resources are discussed.

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Section: Generic Job Demands and Occupation-specific Job Demandsmentioning

confidence: 81%

“…Research conducted with police samples, for example, has a more established history in recognizing the importance of police‐specific job demands, compared with generic job demands, for the assessment of police officer health and work performance (e.g. Brough, , ; Hart et al, ; Juniper et al, ).…”

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Job Demands × Job Control Interaction Effects: Do Occupation-specific Job Demands Increase their Occurrence?

Brough

Biggs

2013

Stress Health

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“…Values >1 reflected an imbalance [Juniper et al, 2010]. Both were scored on a 5-point scale, where a value of 1 indicated no stressful experience and 5 indicated a highly stressful experience.…”

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“…A review of the literature recently indicated that sick-leave measurements used in studies on policemen were too inconsistent or vague to allow comparisons between studies [Körlin et al, 2009]. Stress in police work is particularly high [Collins and Gibbs, 2003;Juniper et al, 2010], and prolonged stress can cause physical and mental illness [Arial et al, 2010;Arnetz et al, 2012]. Stress in police work is particularly high [Collins and Gibbs, 2003;Juniper et al, 2010], and prolonged stress can cause physical and mental illness [Arial et al, 2010;Arnetz et al, 2012].…”

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Is Absence Related to Work Stress? A Repeated Cross‐Sectional Study on a Special Police Force

Magnavita

Garbarino

2013

American J Industrial Med

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“…These characteristics have made a shared conceptualization of the construct and the construction of survey instruments difficult. Recent research in this field aimed to develop assessment tools suited to specific categories of workers, such as police officers [11], or to specific contexts, such as schools [12].…”

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The Pursuit of Organizational Well-Being-an Exploratory Study in a Public Research Agency

Colì¹,

Rissotto²

2013

IJSSH

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Abstract-The aim of this paper is to identify the key areas that contribute to organizational well-being in the Italian National Research Council (CNR), the major Public Research Agency in Italy. Through this study we want to contribute to the definition of this construct in specific contexts, such as research agencies and universities. 7 focus groups were carried out involving 61 employees with different professional roles and profiles. Using qualitative data analysis software NVivo9, we identified 6 key areas of organizational well-being in the CNR. The results of this study highlight the value not only of human resources management, but also of knowledge management, relationships, clarity of the Agency vision and employee future outlook, motivation and participation in decision making as important factors for organizational well-being of a research agency. We propose interventions for organizational health promotion, aimed at creating a learning organization and at activating knowledge management processes.Index Terms-Dimensions of organizational well-being, evaluation and promotion of organizational well-being, exploratory study, Research Agency.

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A new approach to evaluating the well-being of police

Cited by 48 publications

References 13 publications

Job Demands × Job Control Interaction Effects: Do Occupation-specific Job Demands Increase their Occurrence?

Job Demands × Job Control Interaction Effects: Do Occupation-specific Job Demands Increase their Occurrence?

Is Absence Related to Work Stress? A Repeated Cross‐Sectional Study on a Special Police Force

The Pursuit of Organizational Well-Being-an Exploratory Study in a Public Research Agency

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