Police Critical Incidents - The Aftermath

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The proposed research consists of an empirical investigation of the attitudes of experienced and less experienced operational police officers toward the frequency and intensity of 17 selected stressors representing critical incidents. A sample of 50 serving officers, divided into 25 subjects with eight or fewer years of experience and an equal number of officers with more than eight years of experience will be randomly selected. Demographic data and responses to a 17-item listing of critical incidents developed using a 5-point Likert scale will be collected. Descriptive and inferential statistics will be computed, with significance established at the p>.05 level.

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"Psychologists use the term stress to describe the body's reactions to outside pressures, or the physiological wear and tear caused by an attempt to adjust to events that cause emotional and other kinds of arousal (Cohen & Williamson, 1991). Many situations place a serious burden on the emotional and physical well-being of the human organism and it is the rare person indeed who has not experienced stress during the course of his or her life. Many events that are commonplace are known to produce stress. Noise, isolation, any abrupt shift of environment such as takes place when schools, jobs, or places of residence are changed, and the general kind of rapid change which has taken place in all aspects of modern life can create stress (Cohen & Williamson, 1991). Stress can be caused by a diseased germ, air and noise pollution, or physical danger. It can accompany any situation that produces anxiety, frustration or conflict and therefore the physical wear and tear of intense or prolonged emotion. Stress therefore depends not only on outside events but on how the individual reacts to those events (Levy & Heiden, 1991)."

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