Siqueira Cassiano Marcella, Ricciardelli Rosemary
Memorial University.
Crim Justice Behav. 2023 Aug;50(8):1229-1251. doi: 10.1177/00938548231174900. Epub 2023 May 29.
Most correctional officers describe their jobs as stressful. The current study advances the scholarship on correctional stress by offering a rare qualitative analysis that identifies, provides meaning, and contextualizes sources of stress in correctional services. This study complements the correctional stress literature, which, until now, has relied primarily on quantitative methodologies to identify and assess stress determinants. Forty-four correctional officers from Canada's federal prisons were interviewed about their primary source of stress. Findings indicate that staff (i.e., co-workers and managers), not prison residents, represent a primary source of stress in correctional work. In addition, job seniority and gossip were the main stress triggers associated with co-workers, while centralization of decision-making processes and a lack of instrumental communication and support triggered stress coming from managers.
大多数惩教人员都表示他们的工作压力很大。当前的这项研究通过提供一项罕见的定性分析，推进了关于惩教压力的学术研究，该分析确定了惩教服务中的压力源，赋予其意义并将其置于具体情境中。这项研究补充了惩教压力方面的文献，在此之前，该文献主要依靠定量方法来识别和评估压力决定因素。对来自加拿大联邦监狱的44名惩教人员进行了访谈，询问他们主要的压力源。研究结果表明，在惩教工作中，压力的主要来源是工作人员（即同事和管理人员），而非监狱服刑人员。此外，工作资历和流言蜚语是与同事相关的主要压力触发因素，而决策过程的集中化以及缺乏有效的沟通和支持则引发了来自管理人员的压力。
