Koning-Eikenhout Liselotte M J, Delahaij Roos, Kamphuis Wim, Hulshof Inge L, Van Ruysseveldt Joris
Faculty of Psychology, Open Universiteit, Heerlen, the Netherlands.
Learning & Workforce Development, TNO Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research, Soesterberg, the Netherlands.
Chronic Stress (Thousand Oaks). 2024 Oct 7;8:24705470241286948. doi: 10.1177/24705470241286948. eCollection 2024 Jan-Dec.
Police officers are frequently faced with chronic and acute stressors, such as excessive workload, organizational stressors and emotionally charged reports. This study aims to examine the relationship between a form of chronic strain (ie, burnout symptoms) and a resource (ie, coping self-efficacy) in a sample of Dutch police officers. Specifically, we aim to investigate the existence of a loss cycle of resources. We use Latent Change Score modeling to investigate the potential depletion or loss cycle of coping self-efficacy as a result of burnout symptoms in a sample of 95 police officers who completed a survey on three consecutive timepoints. The lag between the measurements was approximately one year. We found that, during both one-year intervals, within-person increases in burnout symptoms were related to within-person decreases in coping self-efficacy. Also, the results emphasize the buffering role of coping self-efficacy for burnout symptoms, as within-person decreases in coping self-efficacy during the first year were associated with within-person increases in burnout symptoms during the following year. Together, the results imply that a loss cycle of coping self-efficacy and burnout symptoms may occur. For this we used Latent Change Score modeling, which is a relatively new approach which provides researchers with the opportunity to analyse multi-wave longitudinal data while focusing on within-person changes over time. Practically, police organizations are advised to monitor personnel wellbeing and resources, to maintain and promote sustainable employability of police officers and to be able to timely provide individuals with interventions. Limitations discussed are the use of self-report measures and large intervals between the measurements. Finally, future directions of research are discussed that would circumvent the reported limitations, such as multiple wave with shorter lags and incorporating confounding factors that could affect coping self-efficacy.
警察经常面临慢性和急性应激源，如工作量过大、组织压力源以及充满情绪的报告。本研究旨在调查荷兰警察样本中一种慢性压力形式（即倦怠症状）与一种资源（即应对自我效能感）之间的关系。具体而言，我们旨在调查资源损耗循环的存在情况。我们使用潜在变化分数模型，对95名警察组成的样本进行研究，这些警察在连续三个时间点完成了一项调查，以探究倦怠症状导致的应对自我效能感的潜在耗竭或损耗循环。测量之间的间隔约为一年。我们发现，在这两个一年的间隔期内，个体倦怠症状的增加与个体应对自我效能感的降低有关。此外，结果强调了应对自我效能感对倦怠症状的缓冲作用，因为第一年个体应对自我效能感的降低与次年个体倦怠症状的增加有关。综合来看，结果表明应对自我效能感和倦怠症状可能会出现损耗循环。为此我们使用了潜在变化分数模型，这是一种相对较新的方法，为研究人员提供了分析多波纵向数据的机会，同时关注个体随时间的变化。实际上，建议警察组织监测人员的幸福感和资源，以维持和促进警察的可持续就业能力，并能够及时为个人提供干预措施。讨论的局限性包括使用自我报告测量方法以及测量之间的间隔时间较长。最后，讨论了未来的研究方向，这些方向将规避所报告的局限性，例如多波测量且间隔时间更短，并纳入可能影响应对自我效能感的混杂因素。
