The Association Between Exposure to Psychosocial Work Factors and Physical and Psychological Health Among Police OfficersTools Georgiou, Paraskevi (2018) The Association Between Exposure to Psychosocial Work Factors and Physical and Psychological Health Among Police Officers. [Dissertation (University of Nottingham only)]
AbstractExposure to psychosocial hazards at the workplace is a major challenge to occupational health and safety and has significant effects on employees, organisations and to the society as a whole. Despite the abundance of literature around this topic, it is insufficiently explored in Cyprus and no previous research has examined this topic among Cypriot Police Officers. A cross-sectional questionnaire survey using the Copenhagen Psychosocial Questionnaire (COPSOQ-II) was administered to 114 police officers in order to examine the association between exposure to psychosocial work factors and physical (self-rated health and sleeping troubles) and psychological (burnout, stress, depressive symptoms, somatic stress) health. A number of statistically significant correlations occurred between potential psychosocial hazards and physical and psychological health. Work family conflict was a significant predictor for all the variables of both physical and psychological health. Vertical trust was a significant predictor of self-rated health, sleeping troubles, stress and depressive symptoms. Tempo, commitment to the work place and horizontal trust were also significant predictors of sleeping troubles and quality of leadership was a significant predictor of burnout. Women and men do not respond to or manage stress in the same way and therefore differences were explored. Male participants experienced greater emotional demands, greater variety of work and higher role conflicts than female participants. This study can act as a basis for conducting further research and developing additional initiatives and preventive measures in this area, reducing exposure to psychosocial hazards in workplace contexts.
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