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- Title
Communication with police supervisors and peers as a buffer of work-related traumatic stress.
- Authors
Stephens, Christine; Long, Nigel
- Abstract
The article presents discussion on traumatic events and effects on police officers engaged in front line duties. Police organizations are increasingly concerned with the prevention of the deleterious effects of traumatic stressors, which include post-traumatic stress disorder and a range of physical symptoms. Theories of traumatic stress suggest that discussing traumatic events and the associated emotions, especially with those who have shared a similar experience, is a natural coping mechanism for processing the effects of traumatic experience and avoiding the development of disorder. Among the wide range of measures of social support that have been used to study recovery from traumatic experience, it is those that measure perceived emotional support, the provision of sympathy and intimacy that have shown the most consistently positive findings in both military and civilian populations. Physical symptoms were measured with the Pennebaker Inventory of Limbic Languidness, a 54 item self-report inventory which taps the occurrence of large number of common physical symptoms and sensations.
- Subjects
POST-traumatic stress disorder; POLICE stress; CIVIL defense; MENTAL health; EMPATHY; INTERPERSONAL relations
- Publication
Journal of Organizational Behavior, 2000, Vol 21, Issue 4, p407
- ISSN
0894-3796
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/(SICI)1099-1379(200006)21:4<407::AID-JOB17>3.0.CO;2-N