Effects of social support on job burnout among police officers: Mediating role of psychological empowerment

Autor: Jiajia ZHANG, Santiago GASCÓN, Furong TANG, Hongguang LIU
Jazyk: English<br />Chinese
Rok vydání: 2023
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Zdroj: 环境与职业医学, Vol 40, Iss 8, Pp 918-922 (2023)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2095-9982
DOI: 10.11836/JEOM22516
Popis: BackgroundThe high-pressure and high-risk nature of the police profession may consume individual resources and lead to job burnout.ObjectiveTo understand the current situation of police job burnout, and test potential mediating role of psychological empowerment between social support and job burnout. MethodsFrom May to October 2020, a questionnaire survey was conducted among police officers in cities A and B of Sichuan Province by convenience sampling. The Perceived Social Support Scale, Psychological Empowerment Scale, and Maslach Burnout Inventory-General Survey were used to evaluate social support, psychological empowerment, and job burnout respectively. Mediation effect of psychological empowerment on the relationship between social support and job burnout was tested using bias-corrected bootstrap method. ResultsOf the 483 questionnaires recovered, there were 461 valid questionnaires (95.44%). The M (P25, P75) scores of social support, psychological empowerment, and job burnout were 5.00 (3.50, 5.83), 3.25 (2.00, 4.25), and 3.61 (2.43, 3.88), respectively. The positive rate of job burnout was 93.92% (433/461), of which 42.51% (196/461) and 51.41% (237/461) of the participants were at mild to moderate and severe levels of job burnout respectively. The results of Spearman correlation analysis showed that social support and psychological empowerment were negatively correlated with job burnout (r=−0.265, −0.328, P
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