Impact of Workplace Factors on Role-Related Stressors and Job Stress Among Community Corrections Staff. (October 2019)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- Impact of Workplace Factors on Role-Related Stressors and Job Stress Among Community Corrections Staff. (October 2019)
- Main Title:
- Impact of Workplace Factors on Role-Related Stressors and Job Stress Among Community Corrections Staff
- Authors:
- Rhineberger-Dunn, Gayle
Mack, Kristin Yagla - Abstract:
- Community corrections staff are responsible for supervising more than 4 million offenders nationwide; yet, little research exists on understanding their experiences with role-related stressors and job stress. The purpose of this study was to extend the existing community corrections literature by examining the impact of job characteristics, danger-related factors, and role preference on role-related stressors (i.e., role conflict, role ambiguity, and role overload) and job stress, with a focus on determining whether the relationships varied across specific job positions (i.e., probation/parole vs. residential). Results indicated that each type of role-related stressor was differentially affected by job characteristics, danger-related factors, and role preference, and that these relationships also differed by position. Threat of harm was a significant predictor of each type of role-related stressor for probation/parole officers, but only had a significant effect on role overload for residential officers. Furthermore, safety training had significant effects on role ambiguity and role overload for residential officers, but was not a significant predictor of any role stressor for probation/parole officers. Role preference was significant for both positions, but only for the role overload variable. Most surprisingly, the only variable to predict job stress was role overload.
- Is Part Of:
- Criminal justice policy review. Volume 30:Number 8(2019)
- Journal:
- Criminal justice policy review
- Issue:
- Volume 30:Number 8(2019)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 30, Issue 8 (2019)
- Year:
- 2019
- Volume:
- 30
- Issue:
- 8
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2019-0030-0008-0000
- Page Start:
- 1204
- Page End:
- 1228
- Publication Date:
- 2019-10
- Subjects:
- probation officer -- job stress -- community corrections -- parole officer
Criminal justice, Administration of -- United States -- Periodicals
364.973 - Journal URLs:
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http://firstsearch.oclc.org/journal=0887-4034;screen=info;ECOIP ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1177/0887403418787227 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 0887-4034
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