SOC 3750 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4.1: Shift Work, Adobe After Effects
10 Feb 2017
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Police stressors: variations in perception among police personnel. Two main categories of stressors: organizational practices, more strongly impact officers overall, ex. Inherent nature of police work: danger (known and unexpected), shift work, public apathy, boredom, sense of uselessness, and dealing with misery and death. Sample: mostly young, aged 21-35, caucasian, and male; line personnel (patrol officers) Top two ranked stressors: killing someone in the line of duty, experiencing a fellow officer be killed. Organizational stressors (7 out of top 20: shift work, excessive discipline. 6-10 years of service: higher organizational and inherent stressor score. 11-15 years of service: greatest difference between organizational and inherent stressors (10/20) Desk sergeants in charge of stations, regular line sergeants, and detective investigators perceived organizational stressors as more intense. Sergeants in charge of substations experienced greatest mean scores for organizational stressors. Age correlated closely with years of service: aged 31-35 reported organizational stress as most intense.
