Summary
"The purpose of the present study was to examine the degree to which police officers appraised organizational and operational facets of work as stressful or uplifting, and to investigate the relationships among such appraisals and burnout and OCB, respectively. In order to do so within an integrated framework that addressed a conceptualization of stress as a process occurring within the person-environment nexus, the moderating effects of coping style and personality were considered. Officers from the Thunder Bay Police Service and the Northwest Region of the Ontario Provincial Police completed self-report measures of these variables. ...The study highlighted the importance of considering both positive and negative appraisals of the working environment in the study of police stress, and the potential adaptive function of both problem-focused and emotion-focused coping."--Abstract.