The role of moderating variables between stressor exposure and being ditressed in a sample of serving police officers

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 181-185

  Brown, Jennifer ^a   Grover, Jennifer ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^b CANTERBURY CHRIST CHURCH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Emotional expression; General health questionnaire; Just world beliefs; Police; Social support

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031990086     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0191-8869(97)00156-6     Document Type: Article

References (19)

1. Brown, L. & Willis, A. (1985). Authoritarianism in British police recruits. Journal of Occupational Health, 58, 97-244.
2. Brugha, T. S. (1993). Social support networks. In D. Brugra and J. Leff (Eds), Principals of social psychiatry. Oxford: Blackwell Scientific Publications.
3. Connors, J. & Heaven, P. C. (1987). Authoritarianism and just world beliefs. Journal of Social Psychology, 127, 345-346.
4. Coyne, J. & Downey, G. (1991). Social factors and psychopathology, stress, social support and coping. Annual Review of Psychology, 42, 401-425.
5. Creamer, M., Burgess, P., Buckingham, W. & Pattison, P. (1993). Post-trauma reactions following a multiple shooting; a retrospective study and methodological inquiry. In J. P. Wilson & B. Raphael (Eds), International handbook of traumatic stress syndromes. New York: Plenum.
6. Donald, I. (1995). Facet theory; defining research domains. In G. M. Breakwell, S. Hammond, and C. Fife Schaw (Eds), Research methods in psychology. London: Sage.
7. Fielding, N. (1994). Cop canteen culture. In T. Newborn & E. Stanko (Eds), Just the boys doing the business: men, masculinities and crime. London: Routledge.
8. Goldberg, D. P. & Williams, P. (1988). A user's guide to the general health questionnaire. Windsor: NFER-Nelson.
9. Harber, K. D. & Pennebaker, J. W. (1992). Overcoming traumatic memories. In S. A. Christianson (Ed), The handbook of emotion and memory research; theory and research. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
10. Janoff-Bulman, R. (1989). Assumptive worlds and the stress of traumatic events; applications of the schema construct. Social Cognition, 7, 113-136.
11. Joseph, S. A., Andrews, B., Williams, R. & Yule, W. (1992). Crisis support and psychiatric symptomatology in adult survivors of the Jupiter cruise ship. British Journal of Clinical Psychology, 31, 63-73.
12. Joseph, S., Williams, R., Irwing, P. & Cannock, T. (1994). The preliminary development of a measure to assess attitudes towards emotional expression. Personality and Individual Differences, 16, 869-875.
13. Mitchell Gibbs, J. (1995). Psychological aspects of traumatic stress in British police officers. B.A. Dissertation presented to the University of Essex.
14. Ouellette Kobasa, S. C. & Puccetti, M. C. (1983). Personality and social resources in stress resistance. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 45, 839-850.
15. Pennebaker, J. W. & Beall, S. (1986). Confronting a traumatic event; towards an understanding of inhibition and disease. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 95, 274-281.
16. Pogrebin, M. R. & Poole, E. D. (1991). Police and tragic events; the management of emotions. Journal of Criminal Justice, 19, 395-403.
17. Sewell, J. D. (1993). Traumatic events of multiple murder investigations. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 6, 103-118.
18. Tomaka, J. & Blascovich, J. (1994). Effects of justice beliefs on cognitive appraisal of and subjective physiological and behavioral responses to potential stress. Journal of Personality and Social Behaviour, 67, 732-740.
19. Young, M. A. (1984). Police wives. In H. Callan, and S. Ardener (Eds), Incorporated wives. London: Croom Helm.