Shift Rotation Among Correctional Officers as a Source of Perceived Job Related Stress

My formal hypothesis for this study is that shift rotation among correctional officers has an effect on correctional officer stress. Although there are many definitions of stress, for the purpose of this study stress is defined as conscious nervous tension. Many authors believe that stress develops from a person's reactions to certain situations that are threatening or exert pressure on them. It is felt that whatever the cause, stress depends not on the outside event but on how one reacts to it. For the purpose of this study, stress was not formally defined to the correctional officers because I was looking for perceptions of stress, or how an officer reacts to certain situations.

Grantor dc:publisher

UNF Digital Commons

Year dc:date

1986

Author dc:creator

• Ingram, Phyllis

• University of North Florida; UNF; Theis
• Academic -- UNF -- Masters of Science in Criminal Justice; Dissertations
• Academic -- UNF –Department of Political Science and Sociology; College of Arts and Sciences
• Criminology
• Place and Environment
• Political Science
• Social and Behavioral Sciences
• Sociology

Repository record dc:identifier

https://digitalcommons.unf.edu/etd/678

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:digitalcommons.unf.edu:etd-1727