TY - JOUR
T1 - Workplace aggression, wellbeing, and job satisfaction
T2 - The specificity in border police organizations
AU - Antón Rubio, Concha
AU - Grueso Hinestroza, Merlin Patricia
AU - Espinosa, Juan C.
AU - TURC, MIRELA
N1 - Antón C, Grueso-Hinestroza MP, Espinosa JC and Turc M (2022) Workplace aggression, wellbeing, and job satisfaction: The specificity in border police organizations. Front. Psychol. 13:1004153. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1004153
PY - 2022/10/13
Y1 - 2022/10/13
N2 - In male-dominated work contexts, the challenges faced by women and their impact on wellbeing and work attitudes have been documented, most extensively in other than police organizations. This study was conducted as a cross-sectional quantitative descriptive correlational predictive study to validate a model of relationships among workplace aggression, job satisfaction, and wellbeing at work with a sample of 1,066 female and male officers from the Romanian Border Police. The results obtained in the study showed that no differential gender effects were found, although women reported higher levels of workplace aggression than men (1.61 vs. 1.52; F = 4.20, p = 0.04). Also, workplace aggression significantly and negatively predicted job satisfaction (R2 = 0.27) and wellbeing at work (R2 = 0.31). In conclusion, although this research is an exploratory approach to the study of workplace aggression in the Romanian police organization, it can generate interventions that would lead to the reduction of undesirable behaviors such as verbal aggression, malicious jokes, discrimination, perception of inequalities, gossip, and defamatory words. In the future lines of research, different sources and conditions of victims and witnesses can be considered the. We also studied the limitations of the study and the future lines of research.
AB - In male-dominated work contexts, the challenges faced by women and their impact on wellbeing and work attitudes have been documented, most extensively in other than police organizations. This study was conducted as a cross-sectional quantitative descriptive correlational predictive study to validate a model of relationships among workplace aggression, job satisfaction, and wellbeing at work with a sample of 1,066 female and male officers from the Romanian Border Police. The results obtained in the study showed that no differential gender effects were found, although women reported higher levels of workplace aggression than men (1.61 vs. 1.52; F = 4.20, p = 0.04). Also, workplace aggression significantly and negatively predicted job satisfaction (R2 = 0.27) and wellbeing at work (R2 = 0.31). In conclusion, although this research is an exploratory approach to the study of workplace aggression in the Romanian police organization, it can generate interventions that would lead to the reduction of undesirable behaviors such as verbal aggression, malicious jokes, discrimination, perception of inequalities, gossip, and defamatory words. In the future lines of research, different sources and conditions of victims and witnesses can be considered the. We also studied the limitations of the study and the future lines of research.
U2 - 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1004153
DO - 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1004153
M3 - Artículo de Investigación
C2 - 36312107
SN - 1664-042X
VL - 2
SP - 1
EP - 13
JO - Frontiers in Physiology
JF - Frontiers in Physiology
M1 - 1
ER -