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Recent Research: Job Stress and Marriage in Police Couples

J. Dufton Lewis-2003-03-01
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Roberts, N.A., & Levenson, R.W. (2001). The Remains of the Workday: Impact of Job Stress and Exhaustion on Marital Interaction in Police Couples. Journal of Marriage and Family, 63, 1052-1067. It is clear that policing is one of the most stressful and physically challenging occupations that an individual can engage in. Research consistently indicates that the stress and physical exhaustion police officers experience leads to a myriad of psychological, lifestyle, and relationship problems including divorce, alcoholism, domestic violence, and emotional disturbances. What is less clear in the research, however, is identifying how stress and physical exhaustion are related and how they manifest themselves in an officer's relationships with others--especially with regard to their marital interactions. In order to address these two important issues, Roberts and Levenson conducted a study to evaluate the degree to which stress and exhaustion experienced by police officers impacted their emoti

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Roberts, N.A., & Levenson, R.W. (2001). The Remains of the Workday: Impact of Job Stress and Exhaustion on Marital Interaction in Police Couples. Journal of Marriage and Family, 63, 1052-1067. It is clear that policing is one of the most stressful and physically challenging occupations that an individual can engage in. Research consistently indicates that the stress and physical exhaustion police officers experience leads to a myriad of psychological, lifestyle, and relationship problems including divorce, alcoholism, domestic violence, and emotional disturbances. What is less clear in the research, however, is identifying how stress and physical exhaustion are related and how they manifest themselves in an officer's relationships with others--especially with regard to their marital interactions. In order to address these two important issues, Roberts and Levenson conducted a study to evaluate the degree to which stress and exhaustion experienced by police officers impacted their emoti

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PsychologyEmotional exhaustionMoodSocial psychologyArousalOfficerDevelopmental psychologyClinical psychology

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