Police Job Stress, Workload and Burnout in Nigeria: The Tired and Frustrated Cops.

IF 1.3 4区 社会学 Q3 CRIMINOLOGY & PENOLOGY
Cyril O Ugwuoke, Monday O Stephen, Michael I Ugwueze, Vincent C Onah, Fidelis Akwaji
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Job stress is a critical factor of concern in police work across the world. While frustrations, exhaustion and emotional burnout in work places, particularly as they relate to police job, have been academically emphasized in more advanced climes, they are marginally addressed in less developed societies like Nigeria. Thus, this paper examines the psychological and physical impacts of job stress, workload, and burnout among police officers in Nigeria. Using a nation-wide cross-sectional survey involving 528 police personnel, this paper notes that the police in Nigeria work longer hours than normal, including working under tensions with poor logistics that expose them to dangers on regular basis. This increases their level of frustrations, exhaustion and emotional burnout in work places besides greatly impacting their service delivery. To ensure effective performance of the police in an atmosphere of increasing complex crime networks, therefore, the study recommends clear strategies for improving police wellbeing.

尼日利亚警察的工作压力、工作量和职业倦怠:疲惫和沮丧的警察。
工作压力是全世界警务工作中的一个重要关切因素。虽然工作场所的挫折、疲惫和情感倦怠,特别是与警察工作有关的挫折、疲惫和情感倦怠,在较为发达的国家得到了学术界的重视,但在像尼日利亚这样的欠发达社会却很少得到关注。因此,本文研究了尼日利亚警察工作压力、工作量和职业倦怠对心理和生理的影响。通过对全国 528 名警务人员进行横断面调查,本文注意到尼日利亚警察的工作时间比正常情况下更长,包括在后勤条件差的紧张环境下工作,使他们经常面临危险。这增加了他们在工作场所的挫折感、疲惫感和情感倦怠感,同时也极大地影响了他们的服务提供。因此,为了确保警察在犯罪网络日益复杂的环境中有效履行职责,本研究建议采取明确的战略来改善警察的福利。
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期刊介绍: The International Journal of Press/Politics is an interdisciplinary journal for the analysis and discussion of the role of the press and politics in a globalized world. The Journal is interested in theoretical and empirical research on the linkages between the news media and political processes and actors. Special attention is given to the following subjects: the press and political institutions (e.g. the state, government, political parties, social movements, unions, interest groups, business), the politics of media coverage of social and cultural issues (e.g. race, language, health, environment, gender, nationhood, migration, labor), the dynamics and effects of political communication.
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