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- Title
A Psychometric Properties of the Malayversion Police Stress Questionnaire.
- Authors
Irniza, Rasdi; Emilia, Zainal Abidin; Saliluddin, Suhainizam Muhammad; Nizam Isha, Ahmad Shahrul
- Abstract
Background: Police Stress Questionnaire (PSQ) was developed to measure police-specific stressors. The present study was the first to have translated the PSQ to Malay. This study aims to test the reliability, construct validity, and component structure of the Malay-version PSQ. Method: A set of survey consisted of the Malay-version PSQ, General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12), Job Content Questionnaire (JCQ), Global Stress Questionnaire (GSQ) and General Self-rated Health (GSRH) were distributed to 300 traffic police officers in Kuala Lumpur and all traffic police officers in a few districts of Pahang and Negeri Sembilan. Results: The response rate was 65.5% (N = 262). The reported Cronbach's alpha coefficient was 0.93 for Operational PSQ (PSQ-Op) and 0.94 for Organisational PSQ (PSQ-Org). Findings indicated that the PSQ had positive construct validity with the GSRH, GSQ, and GHQ. After excluding four factors related to lifestyles, all police-specific stressors were highly loaded (0.50) in one component. Conclusion: It is confirmed that the Malay-version PSQ, excluding the four factors related to lifestyle, was uni-dimensional, reliable, and a valid questionnaire. This study proffers a potentially better instrument for assessing the stressors among Malaysian police.
- Subjects
MALAYSIA; STATISTICAL correlation; FACTOR analysis; POLICE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESEARCH evaluation; PSYCHOLOGICAL stress; DATA analysis software; DESCRIPTIVE statistics
- Publication
Malaysian Journal of Medical Sciences, 2014, Vol 21, Issue 4, p42
- ISSN
1394-195X
- Publication type
Article