Development of two reliable and valid measures of stressors in policing: The operational and organizational police stress questionnaires.

By Donald R. McCreary, Megan M. Thompson. 2006

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, General Health Professions, Radiological and Ultrasound Technology

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In Clinical Psychology

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Citations in the corpus

• The Role of Job Demands and Job Resources in the Development of Emotional Exhaustion, Depression, and Anxiety Among Police Officers (2018, background): “Besides operational stressors related to physical harm and aggression, verbal threats, insults, and criticism by citizens also appeared to be important stressors for police officers on patrol (Collins & Gibbs 2003; McCreary & Thompson, 2006).”
• Police suicide: prevalence, risk, and protective factors (2013, background): “…concur that police stress may be attributed to both organizational (i.e. structural/functional stress from the police organization) and operational tension (i.e. day to day strain from routine police work) (Lanterman et al., 2010; McCreary and Thompson, 2006; Paton et al., 2009; Shane, 2010).”
• Work-Related Stressors and Health-Related Outcomes in Public Service (2015, methodology): “Thus, we extracted and revised 18 items based on pilot interviews (focus group discussions with frontline officers) and previous studies on police officer stresses (McCreary & Thompson, 2006).”
• Occupational stress, supervisor support, job satisfaction, and work-related burnout: perceptions of Turkish National Police (TNP) members (2017, methodology): “Organizational Police Stress Questionnaire (PSQ-Org), and Operational Police Stress Questionnaire (PSQ-Op), developed and validated by McCreary and Thompson (2006) were used to measure the organizational and operational stress.”
• A Pilot Study Evaluating the Effectiveness of a Mindfulness-Based Intervention on Cortisol Awakening Response and Health Outcomes among Law Enforcement Officers (2015, background): “The Police Stress Questionnaire (PSQ; McCreary and Thompson 2006) is a 40-item questionnaire consisting of two subscales measuring operational stressors (20 job content items) and organizational stressors (20 job context items) on a seven-point Likert-type scale, ranging from 1 (no stress at all)…”