Department of Social, Organizational and Differential Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain.
PLoS One. 2018 Oct 4;13(10):e0205028. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0205028. eCollection 2018.
There is scarce research on stress in Spanish police officers and on the use of instruments to assess this construct in this professional group. In Spain, the DECORE questionnaire has been one of the most used. Nevertheless, it had not been previously applied to police officers. The aim of this study was to analyze both the construct validity and the reliability of the original model of 44 items. A cross-sectional design and a non-probabilistic quota sampling were used. A total of 223 Spanish police officers participated. 202 police personnel were men (90.6%) and 21 were women (9.4%). The average age was 41 years old (SD = 7.52). These police officers answered the DECORE questionnaire. Confirmatory Factor Analysis was carried out. The results showed an unsatisfactory adjustment using the original model of 44 items. A final solution of 21 items and four factors was formulated with both suitable validity and reliability indexes. In this model, 23 items that did not weigh highly in any of the four factors were removed. The DECORE-21 questionnaire is recommended to assess work-related stress in police officers.
针对西班牙警察的压力和用于评估该职业群体这一结构的工具,相关研究非常匮乏。在西班牙,DECORE 问卷是使用最多的工具之一。然而,它之前并未在警察群体中应用过。本研究旨在分析 44 项原始模型的结构有效性和可靠性。采用了横断面设计和非概率配额抽样。共有 223 名西班牙警察参与了这项研究。202 名警察为男性(90.6%),21 名为女性(9.4%)。平均年龄为 41 岁(SD=7.52)。这些警察回答了 DECORE 问卷。进行了验证性因素分析。结果显示,使用 44 项原始模型的调整效果并不理想。最终提出了一个包含 21 项和四个因素的解决方案,其具有适当的有效性和可靠性指标。在这个模型中,删除了 23 项在四个因素中没有显著权重的项目。建议使用 DECORE-21 问卷评估警察的工作相关压力。