Ferdik Frank Valentino, Hills Phillip
1 University of West Florida, Pensacola, USA.
Int J Offender Ther Comp Criminol. 2018 May;62(6):1668-1693. doi: 10.1177/0306624X16684567. Epub 2017 Jan 18.
Four professional orientations to which correctional officers can ascribe have been identified in extant literature, and they include the counseling roles, concern for corruption of authority, social distance, and punitive ideologies. Studies have generally found officer demographics and correctional working conditions to be significant predictors of these orientations. No study to date, however, has examined the predictive influence of officer voluntary resignation intentions. Linear regression equations using questionnaire data from a statewide population of maximum security correctional officers ( N = 649) were therefore estimated to explore whether officer desires to terminate their employment accounted for variance in their self-reported orientations. Stronger turnover intentions shared statistically significant associations with three orientations, including negatively predicting the counseling roles and positively predicting the punitive ideology. Implications for correctional policy are addressed.
现有文献中已确定了惩教人员可归属的四种职业取向，它们包括咨询角色、对权力腐败的关注、社会距离和惩罚性意识形态。研究普遍发现，官员的人口统计学特征和惩教工作条件是这些取向的重要预测因素。然而，迄今为止，尚无研究考察过官员自愿离职意图的预测影响。因此，利用来自全州最高安全级惩教人员群体（N = 649）的问卷数据估计了线性回归方程，以探讨官员终止其工作的愿望是否能解释他们自我报告的取向中的差异。更强的离职意图与三种取向在统计上具有显著关联，包括对咨询角色的负向预测和对惩罚性意识形态的正向预测。文中探讨了对惩教政策的影响。
