Psychosocial risks within prison service

Psychosocial risks within prison service

We aimed to identify the psychosocial risks that penitentiary police officers face. To do so, we developed the police stress risk questionnaire–prison (PSrQ–p), a questionnaire for psychosocial risk assessment at workplace, consisting of 22 items that investigated five macro dimensions: isolation,...

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Main Author: Giuseppe Ferrari
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Edizioni FS 2016-03-01
Series:Journal of Health and Social Sciences
Subjects:
Psychosocial factors; police officers; prisons; social environment
Online Access:http://journalhss.com/wp-content/uploads/JHHS1123-28.pdf
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spelling doaj-a2e77dde7e744e35ae91cd0f8ba947a52020-11-24T23:33:04ZengEdizioni FSJournal of Health and Social Sciences2499-22402499-58862016-03-0111232810.19204/2016/psyh4Psychosocial risks within prison serviceGiuseppe Ferrari0Italian Society of Integrative Psychotherapy for Social Development (SIPISS)We aimed to identify the psychosocial risks that penitentiary police officers face. To do so, we developed the police stress risk questionnaire–prison (PSrQ–p), a questionnaire for psychosocial risk assessment at workplace, consisting of 22 items that investigated five macro dimensions: isolation, social image, firearms license, variety of work and roles/responsibilities. We tested this tool on a sample of 1,346 subjects, and testing is on-going. From the data obtained, we confirmed the hypothesis of psychophysical and negative social image relative to the isolation experienced by penitentiary police officers.http://journalhss.com/wp-content/uploads/JHHS1123-28.pdfPsychosocial factors; police officers; prisons; social environment
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Psychosocial risks within prison service
Journal of Health and Social Sciences
Psychosocial factors; police officers; prisons; social environment
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title Psychosocial risks within prison service
title_short Psychosocial risks within prison service
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2499-5886
publishDate 2016-03-01
description We aimed to identify the psychosocial risks that penitentiary police officers face. To do so, we developed the police stress risk questionnaire–prison (PSrQ–p), a questionnaire for psychosocial risk assessment at workplace, consisting of 22 items that investigated five macro dimensions: isolation, social image, firearms license, variety of work and roles/responsibilities. We tested this tool on a sample of 1,346 subjects, and testing is on-going. From the data obtained, we confirmed the hypothesis of psychophysical and negative social image relative to the isolation experienced by penitentiary police officers.
topic Psychosocial factors; police officers; prisons; social environment
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