Workplace aggression, wellbeing, and job satisfaction: The specificity in border police organizations

Frontiers in Psychology

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Concha Antón¹  Merlin Patricia Grueso-Hinestroza²  Juan C. Espinosa²  Mirela Turc³ 

[1] Department of Social Psychology and Anthropology, Universidad de Salamanca;School of Management and Business, Universidad del Rosario;General Inspectorate of Romanian Border Police, Psychology Office

关键词: workplace aggression;    Job Satisfaction;    Wellbeing at work;    Police organisation;    gender;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1004153

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

In male-dominated work contexts, the challenges faced by women and their impact on well-being and work attitudes have been documented, most extensively in other than police organizations. This study was conducted as a cross-sectional quantitative descriptive correlational predictive study to validate a model of relationships among workplace aggression, job satisfaction, and well-being at work with a sample of 1066 female and male officers from the Romanian Border Police. The results obtained in the study showed that no differential gender effects were found, although women reported higher levels of workplace aggression than men (1.61 vs 1.52; F=4.20, p=0.04). Also, workplace aggression significantly and negatively predicted job satisfaction (R2=0.27) and well-being at work (R2=0.31). In conclusion, although this research is an exploratory approach to the study of workplace aggression in the Romanian police organization, it can generate interventions that would lead to the reduction of undesirable behaviors such as verbal aggression, malicious jokes, discrimination, perception of inequalities, gossip, and defamatory words. In the future lines of research can be considered the different sources and conditions of victims and witnesses. We also studied the limitations of the study and the future lines of research.

【 授权许可】

CC BY