Confrontations with aggression and mental health problems in police officers: The role of organizational stressors, life-events and previous mental health problems

Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 135-144

  Van Der Velden, Peter G ^a   Kleber, Rolf J ^a   Grievink, Linda ^b   Yzermans, Joris C ^c  

^a Institute for Psychotrauma   (Netherlands)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^c NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

aggression; life events; longitudinal; mental health problems; organizational stressors; police

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957875606     PISSN: 19429681     EISSN: 1942969X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0019158     Document Type: Article

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