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ABSTRACT
The present study examined the possibility of Belief in a Just World (BJW) acting as a personal resource for police officers, simultaneously protecting their well-being through voice behaviour, vertical trust, and work-family conflict. The sample comprised 573 police officers who voluntarily consented to answer an anonymous online survey. Self-reported measures of personal BJW, voice behaviour, vertical trust, work-family conflict, and well-being were collected. The results of a parallel multiple mediator model (controlling for quantitative demands) showed that all three mediators were significant. Therefore, we found support for BJW acting as a personal resource by simultaneously protecting police officers’ well-being through boosting both voice behaviour and vertical trust, and reducing work-family conflict. Work-family conflict was found to have the largest effect size in the mediation mechanism between BJW and police officers’ well-being. The implications of these results for future research and intervention in police organisations are discussed.
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Isabel Correia
Isabel Correia has a Degree in Psychology from the University of Lisbon in 1990, and since 1993 she has developed her academic career at ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (Master in Management and Human Resource Policy, 1995; PhD in Social Psychology in 2001, Habilitation in 2010). Her research focuses mainly on the factors and mechanisms that explain the legitimacy of injustice and victimization. She has also done research on the predictive value of the justice perceptions to predict well-being and burnout. Her research has been published in international and national journals, and has also been done in collaboration with master and doctoral students.
Helena Carvalho
Helena Carvalho has a PhD in Sociology, in Theory and Method. Full Professor in the Department of Social Research Methods at ISCTE-University Institute of Lisbon. Director of School of Sociology and Public Policies. Director of the Postgraduate in Data Analysis in Social Sciences. Expert in methodological issues and quantitative data analysis. Senior researcher at the Center for the Research and Study of Sociology (CIES-ISCTE-IUL). Area of research is focused inside the quantitative and multivariate methods for categorical and quantitative variables, mainly methods of interdependence and dependence; multilevel models; longitudinal models; measurement models, mediation and moderation models; estimation with bootstrapping. She teaches several courses of multivariate statistics and advanced data analyses on Master and PhD Programs. She has coordinated research projects and she has participated in several research national and international projects, developing her skills of advanced data analysis with quantitative methods. She has published several books and several articles in Portugal and abroad.
Ângela Romão
Ângela Romão has a BA in Psychology and a Master in Social Psychology of Health from ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa. She is currently a student of the PhD Program in Psychology at ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa. She participated in the project “Burnout prevention in Police Officers” coordinated by Isabel Correia.
Susana Val
Susana Val has a BA in Psychology and a Master in Social and Organizational Psychology from ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa. She collaborated in research activities relating justice perceptions, voice behavior and burnout, within the framework of the research project “Burnout prevention in Police Officers” coordinated by Isabel Correia.