2024
DOI: 10.1037/law0000384
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Correctional officer turnover intentions and mental illness symptom: Testing the potential confounding effects of resilience.

Abstract: Correctional officers (COs) working in county-level jails are shouldered with important responsibilities designed to maintain institutional order. Despite the invaluable work they perform, an alarming number of officers voluntarily resign from their position shortly following their initial hire date, creating severe problems for the facilities they now leave behind. Although a number of studies have researched factors affecting officer turnover intent, very few have specifically tested whether officers exhibit… Show more

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“…Acknowledging the high turnover rate among COs, Ferdik and Pica (2024) examined the impact of mental illness symptoms in officers’ intention to resign. The authors collected questionnaire data from COs working in statewide county jails and found COs who scored higher on clinical measures that screened for posttraumatic stress disorder, depression, anxiety, alcohol use disorder, and panic attacks had a greater desire to leave their jobs.…”
Section: Overview Of Articles In the Special Issuementioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Acknowledging the high turnover rate among COs, Ferdik and Pica (2024) examined the impact of mental illness symptoms in officers’ intention to resign. The authors collected questionnaire data from COs working in statewide county jails and found COs who scored higher on clinical measures that screened for posttraumatic stress disorder, depression, anxiety, alcohol use disorder, and panic attacks had a greater desire to leave their jobs.…”
Section: Overview Of Articles In the Special Issuementioning
confidence: 99%
“…Finding innovative yet feasible ways to address complex issues that have major societal impacts is difficult under the best of circumstances. However, as illustrated by the works of Logan et al (2024), Ferdik et al (2024), and Ferdik and Pica (2024), staffing crises exacerbated by the pandemic are likely placing additional constraints on researchers. In particular, staff are presenting with high rates of burnout, turnover, and clinical symptoms.…”
Section: Overview Of Articles In the Special Issuementioning
confidence: 99%
“…It can be argued that results from this period may not hold any applicability to today's correctional climate. However, recent scholarship has argued that because correctional institutions are sometimes slow to embrace change (see Ferdik & Pica, 2024), they often remain locked in a cycle of older customs and traditions. As an illustration to this point, results from the current study seem to mirror those of more recent scholarship that found how carceral samples continue to express concern over their safety from sexual violence (see Ledet et al, 2024;Rudes et al, 2020;Smith et al, 2023).…”
Section: Limitations and Directions For Future Researchmentioning
confidence: 99%