Daily suppression of discrete emotions during the work of police service workers and criminal investigation officers

Anxiety, Stress and Coping

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 515-537

  van Gelderen, Benjamin R ^a   Bakker, Arnold B ^b   Konijn, Elly A ^c   Demerouti, Evangelia ^d  

^a Politie Midden en West Brabant ^*  (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Criminal investigation officers; Discrete emotions; Emotional labor; Exhaustion; Police officers

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BURNOUT; CRIMINAL LAW; EMOTION; EMPLOYMENT; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NETHERLANDS; POLICE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL;

ADULT; BURNOUT, PROFESSIONAL; CRIMINAL LAW; EMOTIONS; EMPLOYMENT; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NETHERLANDS; POLICE;

EID: 80051818996     PISSN: 10615806     EISSN: 14772205     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10615806.2011.560665     Document Type: Article

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