title: Development of a law enforcement stress and coping questionnaire.
abstract: This paper describes the construction of a self-report checklist designed to examine experiences of stressful routine occupational events and life events, coping responses and psychological distress among law enforcement officers. The checklist items were derived from existing scales and are designed to examine a cognitive phenomenological model of stress and coping and testing the goodness of fit hypothesis.
authors.affiliation: Ehrenkranz School of Social Work, New York University, NY 10003, USA.
authors.forename: George T
authors.initials: GT
authors.lastname: Patterson
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D002055:Burnout, Professional / Q000523:psychology; D004650:Employee Performance Appraisal; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D016495:Police / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D012926:Social Control, Formal; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires