- Title
- Job Engagement and Coping Strategies as Moderators of the Relationship between Occupational Stress and Burnout among Police Officers in the Eastern Cape, South Africa
- Creator
- Dywili, Mtutuzeli
- Subject
- Police -- Job stress -- South Africa -- Eastern cape Job satisfaction -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape Employee motivation -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape Work -- Psychological aspects
- Date
- 2016
- Type
- Thesis
- Type
- Doctoral
- Type
- PhD
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10353/7697
- Identifier
- vital:30707
- Description
- Police work in South Africa is demanding and stressful. Literature reveals that occupational stress when fully manifest amount to emotional burnout. It was therefore the aim of this study to examine job engagement and coping strategies as moderators of the relationship between occupational stress and burnout among police officers. Using a sample of 377 police officers from the Eastern Cape, South Africa, data was collected using various scales namely; the Effort – Reward Imbalance (ERI) questionnaire (occupational stress), the Maslach Burnout Inventory – General Survey MBI-GS (emotional burnout), the Utrecht Work Engagement Scale (job engagement), and the Coping Orientation to Problems Experienced questionnaire (coping strategies). Correlation tests and regression analysis were ministered on the data to test the research hypotheses. The major finding of the study indicated that job engagement and coping strategies collectively significantly moderate the relationship between occupational stress and emotional burnout. However, job engagement on its own was reported to be an insignificant moderator of the relationship between occupational stress and emotional burnout.
- Format
- 251 leaves
- Format
- Publisher
- University of Fort Hare
- Publisher
- Faculty of Management and Commerce
- Language
- English
- Rights
- University of Fort Hare
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