...Yunan Chen; Ivan Sun; Yuning Wu; Ziqiang Han Purpose The purpose of this paper is to assesses whether supervisor justice is linked to COVID-19 negative and positive impacts directly and indirectly through the mechanisms of stress and resiliency among auxiliary police in China. Design...

... their department as supportive of counseling, experience significantly less stress and are more willing to participate in counseling than officers who do not. In a study of police officers in Pennsylvania (n = 673), Tucker (2015) finds that officers with higher levels of POS and officers who believe...

... and the rejection of a hostile mindset toward the community. More research should be focused on occupational stress in law enforcement and how Black officers are adapting to and thriving in the policing profession. Christopher E. Powell is the corresponding author and can be contacted at: cpowell0729@gmail.com...

...Chelsie J. Smith; Yu Han; Kathryne E. Dupré; Greg J. Sears Purpose Among a sample of 281 active-duty Canadian police officers, the current study investigated whether perceived organizational support (POS) would predict officers' organizational cynicism, stress and emotional exhaustion three months...

...Benjamin Chase; Timothy Brusseau; Ryan Burns; James Hannon; Hester Henderson; Brian Kehoe Purpose The purpose of this study is to examine the association between components of metabolic syndrome with health-related fitness (HRF) and perceived stress in a sample of law enforcement officers...

...Stephanie Habersaat; Sid Hamed Abdellaoui; Jutta M. Wolf Purpose The purpose of this study is (1) to confirm the relationship between the two dimensions of social desirability (pretending and denying), self-reported stress and health reports in police officers and (2) to assess whether...

...Erica Ceka; Natalia Ermasova Purpose This study investigates the relationship between police officer's willingness to use Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and their perceptions about stress and help-seeking in policing, considering the effect of gender and ethnicity in this association. Design...

...Lois James; Michael S. Goldstein; Peter Lecy; Stephen Mase Purpose To add to the existing body of knowledge on the relationship between stress and job performance in policing, we monitored police officers' physiology using Hexoskin shirts while they responded to simulated scenarios. Design...

...Penelope Allison; Anna Mnatsakanova; Erin McCanlies; Desta Fekedulegn; Tara A. Hartley; Michael E. Andrew; John M. Violanti Purpose Chronic exposure to occupational stress may lead to depressive symptoms in police officers. The association between police stress and depressive symptoms...

...-communicable disease outcomes including cardiovascular disease and several cancers, compared to those employed in other occupations. Repeated exposure to stressful and traumatic stimuli is a possible mechanism driving these adverse health outcomes among LEOs. To better identify the sources of these health...

... of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and related mental health issues amongst this cohort, as well as pervasive financial and workplace stressors, which officers frequently link to the causation of their misconduct. Of particular note is the consistent co-occurrence of work-related stressors...

...Amy-Kate Hurrell; Simon Draycott; Leanne Andrews Purpose Previous research has indicated that helping professionals working with traumatised individuals are susceptible to adverse effects which can be recognised as secondary traumatic stress (STS). The purpose of this paper is to explore STS...

...Ivo Pontes Domingues; José Cunha Machado Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the recursive perspective that emphasizes bureaucracy as a source of officers’ stress, explain officers’ stress as a loosely coupled effect, examine the positive effects of loose coupling and legitimize...

... Emerald Publishing Limited 2017 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only United Kingdom Stress Workload Performance measure Effectiveness In the UK, as in other countries such as the USA (Srinivasan et al., 2013), police forces have been subjected to a number...

...Stephen A. Bishopp; John Worrall; Nicole Leeper Piquero Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the utility of general strain theory in explaining the relationship between organizational stress and police deviance. Design/methodology/approach Data were collected from a non-random...

...Rashmi Singh; Jogendra Kumar Nayak Purpose – The purpose of this study is to examine the effect of work-family conflicts (WFC) on job stress and its subsequent impact on job satisfaction among the police officials. It also examined the moderating effect of the social support from organisations...

...Elizabeth Donnelly; Colby Valentine; Karen Oehme Purpose – The toll of the stresses of policing on officers’ physical and mental health and on their individual work and family functioning has been well documented in the literature. Given the well-established consequences of work-related stress...

... themselves as not a part of the subculture (i.e. “out-group”) would experience more occupational stress in comparison to those who perceive themselves as a part of it (i.e. “in-group”). Design/methodology/approach – The authors use data from the Work and Family Services for Law Enforcement Personnel...

...Matti Vuorensyrjä Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to track changes in organizational and occupational stress in the Finnish police force during the police reform years. It also estimates the effects of organizational stressors on labor turnover intention (LTI). Design/methodology...

...Daniela Acquadro Maran; Antonella Varetto; Massimo Zedda; Monica Franscini Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to carry out a quali-quantitative study to analyze unease and perceived stress in a population of 485 male and female police officers in a large city in northern Italy...