Author : Diana Guarnera Ackerley
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (182 download)
Book Synopsis The Effects of a Stress Management Program on Police Personnel by : Diana Guarnera Ackerley
Download or read book The Effects of a Stress Management Program on Police Personnel written by Diana Guarnera Ackerley and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study was designed to address whether the sample, police personnel in a midwestern suburban police force, are under high levels of stress, and whether the administration of a stress management program would effect changes in ways of coping with stress, quality of family life as it relates to work, job satisfaction, perceived control over events in their lives, and level of professional burnout. The independent variable was a six-week stress management program. The dependent variables were assessed using the Social Readjustment Rating Scale (Holmes & Rahe, 1967), the Maslach Burnout Inventory (Maslach & Jackson, 1982), Police Officer's Questionnaire (Jackson & Maslach, 1982), the Rotter I-E Scale (Rotter, 1966) and eight behavioral indicators of job performance. A randomized block design was used to assign subjects, 49 police personnel within four intact squads, as a group to one of two conditions: a treatment group and control group. Results of the study indicated the overall combined mean on the Social Readjustment Rating Scale was 227.39. Analysis of variances on hypotheses related to three aspects of the burnout syndrome were not found to be significant. Analyses of variances on hypotheses related to a change in job satisfaction as a result of treatment were not found to be significant. Analysis of covariance on hypotheses related to a change in attitude toward family life as a result of treatment were not found to be significant. Individual item analysis of variance on the frequency of use of coping activities showed significant differences for smoking behavior. Analysis of variance on the locus of control measure showed no significant changes as a result of treatment. From the findings in this study, it may be concluded that the hypotheses related to burnout, quality of family life as it relates to work, job satisfaction, perceived control over events were not supported. Of the coping activities, only smoking behavior showed an increase as a result of treatment.