Leave it at the gate: job stress and satisfaction in correctional staff

摘要: Though academic literature firmly establishes an inverse relationship between job stress and satisfaction, global correctional studies fail to examine the extent of that affiliation on overall satisfaction. As such, this study uses a faceted approach explore underlying relationships organizational, job, personal characteristics staff causes Using Job Satisfaction Survey, nine aspects satisfaction are considered. The Work Stress Scale for Correctional Officers’ analyses five areas directly related environments. This examines both uniform nonuniform assigned minimum security prison. On average, scored well below average American worker Survey. was predicted exclusively by or stressors, including itself, role conflict, ambiguity, physical condition prison, while emp...