Organisational and individual perspectives of police wellbeing in England and Wales

Phythian, Rebecca; Birdsall, Nathan; Kirby, Stuart; Cooper, Emily; Posner, Zoe; Boulton, Laura

doi:10.1177/0032258x211052250

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“…Despite having fundamental values aligned with the organisation, the variety of emotions that must be displayed leads to a complex relationship with the end user (Kyprianides et al ., 2022). This comes within a wider concern related to both physical wellbeing (De Camargo, 2022) and mental well-being including stress and burnout (Phythian et al ., 2021) amongst workers who truly care about their role in society and responsibilities to individuals.…”

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“…This danger can be both physical (De Camargo, 2022; Ward et al. , 2020), but also can be dangerous to individual mental well-being (Phythian et al ., 2021).…”

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“…Further work by Ward et al (2020) develop this analysis by including aspects of gender, and also the particular case of workers such as police officers who work on the boundary of safety and danger. This danger can be both physical (De Camargo, 2022;Ward et al, 2020), but also can be dangerous to individual mental well-being (Phythian et al, 2021).…”

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“…Overall well-being of police officers has become of increasing concern, particularly physical well-being during the Covid-19 pandemic (De Camargo, 2022) and during times of austerity (Hesketh et al, 2015). Regard to mental well-being has also increased, including factors such as stress (Phythian et al, 2021) and burnout (Adams and Mastracci, 2020). Indeed, there has been some attempt to examine how police officers experience both emotional labour and burnout, mainly in the form of small scale qualitative studies (Lennie et al, 2021;van Gelderen et al, 2017).…”

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“…For the misaligned values class, respondents reported that there was a potential for new recruits to have an idealised, perhaps naı €ve, view of the role of the police officer, and that this could be very different to the reality (Phythian et al, 2021). Respondents also highlighted issues in the recruitment and selection process, where new recruits had started with a very different view to what a front line officer's role would be as compared to the reality.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Emotional labour and burnout among police officers

Hopkins

Dowell

Flitton³

2023

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PurposeWith rare research access to the police service in the United Kingdom, the authors investigate levels of burnout and the performance of emotional labour.Design/methodology/approachUsing 330 surveys completed by serving police officers, the authors investigate levels of burnout and also the performance of the three elements of emotional labour.FindingsInvestigating heterogeneity, the authors create a typology of three different types of officer. In addition to a core group, this includes groups with misaligned and matching values. Surface acting impacts on all groups, and in each group it is associated with increased levels of burnout.Originality/valueA unique feature of this research is the involvement of a practitioner from the police service in the authorship team, together with re-engagement with the police service in order to refine this typology. Possible coping strategies are introduced following this consultation.

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confidence: 99%

“…This danger can be both physical (De Camargo, 2022; Ward et al. , 2020), but also can be dangerous to individual mental well-being (Phythian et al ., 2021).…”

Section: The Current Literaturementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: The Current Literaturementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: The Current Literaturementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Re-engagement With Police Servicementioning

confidence: 99%

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Emotional labour and burnout among police officers

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Dowell

Flitton³

2023

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Police burnout and organizational stress: job and rank associations

Baker

Richardson

Fuessel-Herrmann

et al. 2023

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PurposeBurnout is an issue affecting not only individual officers, but also the agencies they work for and the communities they serve. Despite its prevalence, there is limited evidence for effective interventions that address officer burnout. This study aims to advance this area of study by identifying organizational factors associated with police burnout. By identifying these factors, stakeholders interested in officer wellness will have more clearly defined targets for intervention.Design/methodology/approachSelf-report data were gathered from US police officers partitioned into command staff (n = 125), detective (n = 41), and patrol officer (n = 191) samples. Bootstrapped correlations were calculated between 20 organizational stressors and officer burnout.FindingsFindings revealed several shared organizational stressors associated with burnout regardless of role (command staff, detective, patrol officer), as well as several role-specific organizational stressors strongly associated with burnout. Together, these findings suggest utility in considering broad-based organizational interventions and role-specific interventions to affect burnout amidst varying job duties.Research limitations/implicationsPrimary limitations to consider when interpreting these results include sample homogeneity, unequal subsample sizes, cross-sectional data limitations, and the need for implementation of interventions to test the experimental effects of reducing identified organizational stressors.Practical implicationsThis study may provide command staff and consulting parties with targets to improve departmental conditions and officer burnout.Originality/valueThis represents the first study to evaluate organizational stressors by their strength of association with burnout across a stratified police sample.

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Developments in UK police wellbeing: A review of blue light wellbeing frameworks

Phythian

Birdsall

Kirby

et al. 2022

The Police Journal: Theory, Practice and Principles

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Policing demands are widely acknowledged to negatively impact on the physical and mental health of police officers and staff. Research has documented the need for greater insight into the stressors and trauma that impact police officers, with a current national drive towards enhancing the police wellbeing agenda: namely, Oscar Kilo and the National Wellbeing Service. To understand the current wellbeing strategies in place, 34 Blue Light Wellbeing Frameworks were analysed. A mixed methods approach was adopted: quantitative data was descriptively examined, with thematic analyses employed to explore the qualitative data. Findings from the review highlight developments in police wellbeing, as well as areas for future development.

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Organisational and individual perspectives of police wellbeing in England and Wales

Cited by 6 publications

References 56 publications

Emotional labour and burnout among police officers

Emotional labour and burnout among police officers

Police burnout and organizational stress: job and rank associations

Developments in UK police wellbeing: A review of blue light wellbeing frameworks

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