... 1,900 police officers in a northern Chinese province, we tested a moderated mediation model featuring the moderating effect of perceived self-legitimacy on the relationships between perceived self-media distortion and stress. Findings We found that perceived self-media distortion is directly...

... self-legitimacy. Design/methodology/approach This study used survey data collected from 1,944 police officers in a northern Chinese province. Structural equation modeling (SEM) was performed to assess the direct and indirect associations between technology utilization and external procedural...

...Rok Hacin; Gorazd Meško Purpose In recent years, several studies on self-legitimacy of police officers were conducted; however, few have tested the unstable nature of legitimacy in different time periods. This paper aims to focus on the self-legitimacy of police officers and its impact on pro...

...Viviane de Oliveira Cubas; Frederico Castelo Branco; André Rodrigues de Oliveira; Fernanda Novaes Cruz Purpose The authors examine predictors of self-legitimacy for police officers belonging to the Military Police force of São Paulo (Brazil). Considering the variables mobilized by the literature...

...Fei-Lin Chen; Ivan Sun; Yuning Wu; Shun-Yung Kevin Wang Purpose This paper aims to assess whether internal procedural justice is directly and indirectly through self-legitimacy connected to external procedural justice among Taiwanese police officers. Design/methodology/approach Survey data...

... with top managers, immediate supervisors and coworkers on officers' perceptions of self-legitimacy. Design/methodology/approach The study used a cross-sectional survey of nearly 250 front-line police officers from seven municipal police departments in Michigan, Indiana and Kentucky to examine...

... training institute in the Southeastern USA in the fall of 2015. Specifically, a series of items first inquired about negative attitudes attributable to deadly force incidents throughout the country, followed by items tapping into theoretically relevant concepts including self-legitimacy, audience...