title: Stress in rural law enforcement.
abstract: Questionnaires and Spielberger's State-Trait Anxiety Inventory were administered to rural police officers to determine whether stressful factors were comparable to those of urban officers. Most (90%) indicated the job was stressful, but traditional measures of police stress failed to support this perception. It is suggested that the denial of the effects of stress may be a prerequisite to successful performance in rural law enforcement.
mesh_terms: D001007:Anxiety / Q000523:psychology; D003416:Criminal Law; D006801:Humans; D007603:Jurisprudence; D012423:Rural Health; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000523:psychology*; D014707:Vermont