Burnout and Mental Health Among Police Officers

Bibliographic Data

ID6295145
AuthorsRobert T Golembiewski, M G Lloyd (0000-0002-3207-7155), Katherine Scherb, Robert Munzenrider (Pennsylvania State University)
Year1992
Publication date1992-10-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Public Administration Research and Theory (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1053-1858 • E-ISSN: 1477-9803
PublisherOxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1093/oxfordjournals.jpart.a037145
OpenAlexW2345682985
LanguageEN
Citations received9
References cited1

This study extends to an important occupational group a line of research dealing with the phases of burnout and health status. Earlier work established a robust pattern of association: As expected, persons assigned to eight phases of burnout presented escalating symptoms of diminished health. This association is consistent with numerous other tests of the concurrent validity of the phase model. Here, two local police departments, N = 213, successfully replicate earlier tests of an association between burnout and mental health status. Moreover, substantial proportions of the variance are shared by the phases and the proportions of “psychiatric cases,” here defined as respondents to the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ) who report four or more nonpsychotic psychiatric symptoms. The GHQ form used here is modified for U.S. contexts. The results of this study are reinforced in three ways: by factor analysis of GHQ items; by rejecting several variables alternative to the phases as GHQ covariants; and by using canonical discriminant functions to compare phase assignments with the actual group memberships of “normals” and “cases” assigned by the GHQ

Burnout · General Health Questionnaire · Mental health · Psychiatry · Clinical Psychology · Healthcare professionals’ stress and burnout · Occupational Health and Safety Research · Psychology · Social Psychology · Workplace Health and Well-being

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