Houdmont, J., Jachens, L., Randall, R. orcid.org/0000-0002-6991-9037 et al. (2 more authors) (2020) Stress management competency framework in English policing. Occupational Medicine, 70 (1). pp. 31-37. ISSN 0962-7480
Abstract
Background
The UK Health and Safety Executive’s Stress Management Competency Framework and associated questionnaire, the Stress Management Competency Indicator Tool (SMCIT), address line managers’ behaviours across four competency areas. The application in policing remains unexplored.
Aims
This study profiled English police officers’ perception of their line managers’ competencies in the framework areas. The odds of experiencing poor mental wellbeing and work attitudes associated with having a line manager with a development need on each competency area were tested.
Methods
Two hundred and sixty-three police officers completed a survey comprising the SMCIT and measures of psychological distress, resilience and work engagement. Bivariate correlations were calculated to identify patterns of relationships between variables. Binary logistic regression analyses tested the odds of psychological distress caseness, low resilience and low work engagement being associated with officers’ perception of their line manager having a development need on the SMCIT criteria.
Results
Approximately half the participants reported their line manager had a development need on the ‘Managing and Communicating Existing and Future Work’, ‘Managing the Individual Within the Team’ and ‘Reasoning and Managing Difficult Situations’ competencies, and one quarter on the ‘Respectful and Responsible: Managing Emotions and Having Integrity’ competency. Officers’ rating of their line manager having a development need on the four competency areas was associated with up to four-fold elevated odds of each undesirable state.
Conclusions
The framework competency areas are relevant to English policing and offer a basis for stress reduction interventions targeted at line managers’ behaviours.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2019 The Author(s). Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Society of Occupational Medicine. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
Keywords: | Line manager; police; psychological distress; resilience; Stress Management Competency Framework; work engagement |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Management School (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 20 Dec 2019 12:05 |
Last Modified: | 19 Oct 2021 09:43 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Oxford University Press (OUP) |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1093/occmed/kqz143 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:154791 |
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