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Stressors for Law Enforcement Officers. Edition No. 1

VDM Publishing House, September 2008, Pages: 100

As an ex-law enforcement officer and now a
psychologist, I am interested in how law enforcement
officers handle the stress of their work
experiences and how that work impacts them. This
study examined law enforcement officers' perceptions
of self, occupational role, and work events, as well
as their relation to perceived stress and symptoms
of posttraumatic stress. Self-report measures were
completed anonymously by law enforcement officers.
The study determined that neuroticism, job quality
and general job satisfaction were the main
predictors of stress. Levels of stress mediated
between 1) job quality and the symptoms of anxious
arousal and impaired self-reference; 2) general job
satisfaction and the symptoms of defensive avoidance
and dissociation; and 3) neuroticism and the symptom
of defensive avoidance. This implies that police
officers’ job quality, their feelings of general job
satisfaction, and low levels of neuroticism are
important in alleviating stress and subsequent
psychological sequela. The study’s findings and
implications may have important ramifications for
those supervising or working with law enforcement
personnel.

Lynn J. Piper.
Lynn J. Piper, Ph.D., an ex police officer, is a licensed
clinical psychologist with a private practice in Springfield,
VA. Her doctorate in clinical psychology was obtained at the
University of North Texas. She has presented at the Association
of Traumatic Stress Specialists conferences and volunteers with
CISM Teams.