Justice and Life Satisfaction Among Indian Police Officers: A Preliminary Study

IF 1.8 4区社会学 Q2 CRIMINOLOGY & PENOLOGY

Asian Journal of Criminology Pub Date : 2023-08-01 DOI:10.1007/s11417-023-09408-8

Eric G. Lambert, Hanif Qureshi, James Frank

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Abstract

The concept of organizational justice refers to employee perceptions about whether the employing organization treats workers in a fair and just manner. Policing research has shown that officers’ organizational justice views are associated with various salient outcomes (e.g., job satisfaction, organizational commitment, and misconduct). No research has been published on the relationship of justice views and the life satisfaction of police officers. The current preliminary study explored how distributive and procedural justice were related to life satisfaction based on self-reported survey data from 827 police officers from the state of Haryana in India. Factor analysis suggested that two variables represent procedural justice: one focused on the perceived fairness of procedures for evaluation and the other focused on the perceived fairness of the procedures for promotion decisions. Only one factor was needed for distributive justice. Ordinary least squares (OLS) regression analysis indicated that all three justice variables had significant positive associations with life satisfaction. The results suggest that enhancing distributive and procedural justice views of officers should increase the level of reported satisfaction with life.

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印度警察的公正性与生活满意度的初步研究

组织公正的概念是指员工对雇佣组织是否以公平公正的方式对待员工的看法。警务研究表明，警官的组织公正观与各种显著结果（如工作满意度、组织承诺和不当行为）相关。关于正义观与警官生活满意度之间关系的研究尚未发表。本初步研究基于印度哈里亚纳邦 827 名警官的自我报告调查数据，探讨了分配公正和程序公正与生活满意度的关系。因子分析表明，有两个变量代表了程序公正：一个侧重于评估程序的公平感，另一个侧重于晋升决策程序的公平感。分配公正只需要一个因子。普通最小二乘法（OLS）回归分析表明，所有三个公正变量都与生活满意度有显著的正相关。结果表明，提高官员对分配公正和程序公正的看法应能提高所报告的生活满意度。

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Asian Journal of Criminology CRIMINOLOGY & PENOLOGY-

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