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Table 4 Organizational stressors and outcomes

From: Organizational stressors associated with job stress and burnout in correctional officers: a systematic review

Reference

Sample

Stress/Burnout instrument

Stressors

Outcomes

Armstrong & Griffin (2004)

3,794 COs

Five items (Crank, Regoli, Hewitt & Culbertson, 1995)

Role problems (6 items, Hepburn & Knepper, 1993)

Job stress

Perceived intrinsic rewards (6 items, Mottaz, 1981)

Quality of supervision (7 items, Saylor 1981)

Organizational support (3 items, Eisenberger et al., 1986)

Moon & Maxwell (2004)

318 COs

Work stress (5 items) (Cullen, Link, Wolfe & Frank, 1985)

Work overload (5 items, validated)

Job stress

Supervisory support (5 items, validated)

Castle & Martin (2006)

373 COs

Occupational stress (6 items) (Cullen, Link, Wolfe & Frank, 1985)

Working overtime (1 item)

Job stress

Prison Social Climate Survey Adaptation (5 items) (Saylor, 1983)

Inmate overcrowding (1 item)

 

Levels of staffing (1 item)

Training prior to employment (1 item)

Role problems (5 items, not validated)

Opportunity for promotion (not reported)

Salary (1 item, annual salary)

Supervisory support (6 items, Cullen et al. 1985)

Administrative strengths (10 items, Saylor, 1984)

Griffin (2006)

2,576 COs

Five items (Crank, Regoli, Hewitt & Culbertson, 1995)

Quality of supervision (7 items, Saylor 1981)

Job stress

Organizational support (3 items, Eisenberger et al., 1986)

Neveu (2007)

707 COs

Maslach Burnout Inventory – Human Service Survey (MBI-HSS: 22 items) (Dion & Tessier, 1994, Maslach, Jackson & Leiter, 1996)

Participation (3 items, validated)

Burnout

Skill utilization (4 items, validated)

Professional worth (4 items, validated)

Castle (2008)

373 COs

Job stress scale and general stress scale (Dowden & Tellier, 2004)

Role problems (5 items, not validated)

Job stress

Opportunity for promotion (not reported)

Supervisory support (not reported)

Administrative strengths (not reported)

Taxman & Gordon (2009)

1,231 COs

Three items (Peters, O’Connor & Rudolf, 1980)

Organizational justice (13 items, Sweeny & McFarlin, 1997)

Job stress

Summerlin et al. (2010)

133 COs

Operational Police Stress Questionnaire (PSQ-Op: 20 items) and Organizational Police Stress Questionnaire (PSQ-Org: 20 items) (McCreary & Thompson, 2006)

Levels of staffing (1 item, PSQ-Org, McCreary & Thompson, 2006)

Job stress

Daily operational tasks (PSQ-Org, McCreary & Thompson, 2006)

Work-related activities outside of correctional facility (PSQ-Org, McCreary & Thompson, 2006)

   

Style of leadership (PSQ-Org, McCreary & Thompson, 2006)

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