Advanced Search

Journal Navigation

Journal Home

Subscriptions

Archive

Contact Us

Table of Contents

Access Criminology and Criminal Justice journals now

Click here to sign up for SAGE Journal Email Alerts today!

Sign In to gain access to subscriptions and/or personal tools.
Criminal Justice and Behavior
This Article
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow References
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Right arrow Citation Map
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to Saved Citations
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrowRequest Permissions
Right arrow Request Reprints
Right arrow Add to My Marked Citations
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via HighWire
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Right arrow Citing Articles via Scopus
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by HART, P. M.
Right arrow Articles by HEADEY, B.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Complore   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us   Add to Digg   Add to Reddit   Add to Technorati   Add to Twitter  
What's this?

Perceived Quality of Life, Personality, and Work Experiences:

Construct Validation of the Police Daily Hassles and Uplifts Scales

PETER M. HART

University of Melbourne

ALEXANDER J. WEARING

University of Melbourne

BRUCE HEADEY

University of Melbourne

This study investigated the relative contribution made by personality and work-related experiences to a police officer's perceived quality of life (PQOL). The construct validity of the Police Daily Hassles and Uplifts Scales also was examined. Data were provided by 404 police officers drawn from all ranks and work sections within an Australian police department. A series of factor analyses supported the construct validity of the scales, which can be grouped into organizational and operational domains. Hassles and uplifts were shown to be independent. Correlational and regression analyses indicated that organizational, rather than operational, experiences were most important in determining PQOL. The results showed that neuroticism, as well as organizational hassles and uplifts, were significant predictors of PQOL. These findings both challenge the stereotype of policing that suggests operational experiences are most distressing and demonstrate that PQOL is determined by police officers' personality and work-related experiences.

Criminal Justice and Behavior, Vol. 21, No. 3, 283-311 (1994)
DOI: 10.1177/0093854894021003001
Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Complore Complore   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us   Add to Digg Digg   Add to Reddit Reddit   Add to Technorati Technorati   Add to Twitter Twitter    What's this?


This article has been cited by other articles:


Home page
 TraumatologyHome page
L. M. Huddleston, D. Paton, and C. Stephens
Conceptualizing Traumatic Stress in Police Officers: Preemployment, Critical Incident, and Organizational Influences
Traumatology, September 1, 2006; 12(3): 170 - 177.
[Abstract] [PDF]

Home page
 TraumatologyHome page
D. Paton
Posttraumatic growth in protective services professionals: Individual, cognitive and organizational influences
Traumatology, December 1, 2005; 11(4): 335 - 346.
[Abstract] [PDF]

Home page
 Criminal Justice and BehaviorHome page
A. Kohan and D. Mazmanian
Police Work, Burnout, and Pro-Organizational Behavior: A Consideration of Daily Work Experiences
Criminal Justice and Behavior, October 1, 2003; 30(5): 559 - 583.
[Abstract] [PDF]

Home page
 Criminal Justice and BehaviorHome page
M. H. ANSHEL
A Conceptual Model and Implications for Coping with Stressful Events in Police Work
Criminal Justice and Behavior, June 1, 2000; 27(3): 375 - 400.
[Abstract] [PDF]