Hart, P.M. & Cotton, P. (2002). Conventional Wisdom is Often Misleading: Police Stress Within an Organisational Health Framework.

The attached book chapter is one of the most comprehensive scientific articles on the nature and determinants of police stress. Using a large sample of serving Australian police officers, the authors examined how the levels of occupational well-being among police officers compared with other occupational groups, and then examined whether police officers’ levels of occupational wellbeing were determined by their personality characteristics, their use of coping strategies, the climate of their organisation, or their operational and organisational work experiences. Results showed that:

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