Predictors of Social and Defensive Coping to Address Workplace Stressors: A Comparison of Police in South Korea and the United States

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• The authors would like to thank Seok Jin Jeong and Dae Hoon Kwak, Michigan State University, who developed and managed the database for the research, and also Jung Mi Kim, Michigan State University, Byong Ook Moon, University of Alaska, and Dr. Young‐Nam Lee, Kwangdong University, for assistance in the development of the Korean version of the survey.
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