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Emotional Climate among Prisoners and Prison Officers

Emotional climate refers to predominant and relatively stable collective emotions generated through the social interaction of a social group’s members in a particular milieu. This study aims to compare how prisoners and prison officers perceive the feelings of their group members in the situation constructed by the same organisation – prison. Data were collected on a convenience sample of prisoners and prison officers in Croatia. The Emotional Climate Scale assessed the perception of the emotional climate. While there was a statistically significant effect of status (prisoner vs prison officers) on dimensions of emotional climate, the main effects of gender and time spent in prison/ service and those variables’ interactions were not significant. Prisoners perceived more negative and less positive emotions and more negative emotional balance in their group than prison officers. Generally, both prisoners and prison officers perceived the emotional climate in their groups as more negative than positive. The promotion of a positive emotional climate is needed for adaptive coping within a prison, psychological well-being, and resilience among prisoners and prison officers

emotional climate ; emotional balance ; well-being ; prisoners ; prison officers

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