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Assessment of Metric Characteristics of Coping Strategies Scale in Dealing with Negative and Harassment Behavior at Workplace in Police Profession

Exposure to negative and harassment behaviors at the workplace has been recognized in previous researches a significant psychosocial risk and a major source of stress, that negatively correlates with the quality of work and mental health of employees. Some organizations and professions, such as police profession, due to the hierarchical and authoritarian structures, can especially be suitable for expression of negative behaviors and harassment at workplace. In Croatia there has been no research about dealing with negative and harassment behaviors at workplace in the context of police profession. This paper will present the results of a preliminary study that include a convenience sample of 209 employees of one police authority in Croatia (Policijska uprava splitsko-dalmatinska). The specific goal of this paper is to describe construction and psychometric characteristics of the Coping strategies scale in the case of negative and harassment behavior at workplace in police profession. Participants were instructed to indicate the extent to which they used the various coping strategies/behaviors to cope with negative and harassment behaviors at workplace, using a 5-point scale. The coping behaviors were drawn from study conducted by Lim (2011), who used the same 24 items scale. For the purpose of this study authors added two more items to the questionnaire. The scale has shown good metric characteristics and reliability of the scale. Factorial analysis suggested the existence of three factors: (1) focusing on own emotions and facilitate stress symptoms (Cronbach's alpha =0, 834 ) ; (2) tendency to calm the situation – avoiding problems strategy (Cronbach's alpha = 0, 835) ; (3) active problem solving strategy (Cronbach's alpha =0, 719). In this presentation authors will represent the final form of the questionnaire and theoretically predictable factors.

coping strategies, metric characteristics, negative and harassment behavior at workplace, police professionals

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