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A Cultural Analysis of Police Stress: An Application of Grid/Group Theory

Aeppli, Kelsey M.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ysu1496142126364081

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2017, Master of Science in Criminal Justice, Youngstown State University, Department of Criminal Justice and Consumer Sciences.
Studies have been conducted focusing on the causes of stress among law enforcement officers. Prior research has linked stress within the workplace to the inability of officers to exercise their discretionary rights. This study examines whether officers with more workplace autonomy perceive more or less stress than officers without. To explore this question, this study applies grid/group theory to a secondary analysis of Police Stress and Domestic Violence in Police Families in Baltimore, Maryland, 1997-1999. A total of 804 police officers were classified by the four quadrants of the theory, and quadrant placement was used to predict scores for five different kinds of stress—critical incidents, burnout, PTSD, psychological stress, and perceived stress. While it was expected that officers classified as Egalitarian (low grid/high group) should have the lowest levels of stress because of their frequent criticism of police bureaucracies and the solidarity formed by the police subculture, the study found that officers with a Hierarchical orientation (high grid/high group) consistently have the lowest stress scores. In other words, the bureaucratic structure of law enforcement can reduce stress when properly implemented.
Richard Rogers, PhD (Advisor)
Christopher Bellas, PhD (Committee Member)
Monica Merrill, PhD (Committee Member)
51 p.
Cultural Anthropology
police stress; grid group; culture

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  • Aeppli, K. M. (2017). A Cultural Analysis of Police Stress: An Application of Grid/Group Theory [Master's thesis, Youngstown State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ysu1496142126364081

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Aeppli, Kelsey. A Cultural Analysis of Police Stress: An Application of Grid/Group Theory. 2017. Youngstown State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ysu1496142126364081.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Aeppli, Kelsey. "A Cultural Analysis of Police Stress: An Application of Grid/Group Theory." Master's thesis, Youngstown State University, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ysu1496142126364081

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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