Predicting police officer job satisfaction: Traditional versus contemporary models of trauma in occupational experience

Traumatology

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 189-197

  Burke, Karena J ^a   Paton, Douglas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Chronic stressors; Job satisfaction; Operational experiences; Organizational context; Police officers

Indexed keywords

EID: 37649011181     PISSN: 15347656     EISSN: 10859373     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1534765606294989     Document Type: Article

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