Gender And Police Stress Essay
Christopher Giacomelli
September 17, 2014
Gender and Police Stress In every profession there is a strong possibility for stress but in law enforcement the stress factors are more powerful then those of other professions. In the earlier years of law enforcement there have been tests and studies done to determine what exactly causes the stress and what methods worked to combat those stressful feelings for male police officers. However, in today’s society female police officers are becoming more prevalent in police agencies all around the world. This means that those tests that were performed in the past have to be modified to find out if there is an actual difference between gender and stress. The idea of stress brings up the idea of coping with that stress in a manner that is healthy for …show more content…
There are five major sources of stress for police officers as mentioned by Ni He, Jihong Zaho and Carol A. Archbold’s article “Gender and Police Stress” these five sources are “stress from the work environment, availability of peer support and trust, social and family influence, bureaucratic characteristics of police organizations and accessibility of coping mechanisms.” Even though these are five of the most prominent reasons for stress there are multiple other types and reasons for stress, these sources area touched on in during Gershon’s survey in 1999 including 943 male police officers and 157 female police officers in the Baltimore City Police Department. Gershon reviews the different types of stress (Somatization, Anxiety and Depression), the work environment (Negative Exposure, Camaraderie and Unfairness), work-family conflict (Spillover) and Coping (Constructive and Destructive). During the survey Gershon will find out if there is a difference between male officer stress and coping mechanisms versus female stress and coping
September 17, 2014
Gender and Police Stress In every profession there is a strong possibility for stress but in law enforcement the stress factors are more powerful then those of other professions. In the earlier years of law enforcement there have been tests and studies done to determine what exactly causes the stress and what methods worked to combat those stressful feelings for male police officers. However, in today’s society female police officers are becoming more prevalent in police agencies all around the world. This means that those tests that were performed in the past have to be modified to find out if there is an actual difference between gender and stress. The idea of stress brings up the idea of coping with that stress in a manner that is healthy for …show more content…
There are five major sources of stress for police officers as mentioned by Ni He, Jihong Zaho and Carol A. Archbold’s article “Gender and Police Stress” these five sources are “stress from the work environment, availability of peer support and trust, social and family influence, bureaucratic characteristics of police organizations and accessibility of coping mechanisms.” Even though these are five of the most prominent reasons for stress there are multiple other types and reasons for stress, these sources area touched on in during Gershon’s survey in 1999 including 943 male police officers and 157 female police officers in the Baltimore City Police Department. Gershon reviews the different types of stress (Somatization, Anxiety and Depression), the work environment (Negative Exposure, Camaraderie and Unfairness), work-family conflict (Spillover) and Coping (Constructive and Destructive). During the survey Gershon will find out if there is a difference between male officer stress and coping mechanisms versus female stress and coping