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Role conflicts, emotional exhaustion and health problems: a study of police officers in Taiwan
Author(s) -
Wu Chiahuei
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
stress and health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.009
H-Index - 61
eISSN - 1532-2998
pISSN - 1532-3005
DOI - 10.1002/smi.1245
Subject(s) - emotional exhaustion , mediation , psychology , social psychology , role conflict , structural equation modeling , burnout , clinical psychology , political science , statistics , mathematics , law
This study focused on the role conflicts faced by police officers in Taiwan and investigated the relationship between role conflicts, emotional exhaustion and health problems based on the job demands and resources model (JD‐R model). Firstly, in addition to work–family conflict, an inter‐role conflict, this study identified an intrasender role conflict for police officers called uncompromising‐friendly conflict. Secondly, according to the JD‐R model, it was hypothesized that emotional exhaustion has a complete mediation effect on the relationships between role conflicts and health problems. The survey data in Huang's study were analysed. A total of 672 police officers at Kaohsiung, Taiwan provided completed data for analysis. Correlation analysis showed that role conflicts, emotional exhaustion and health problems were positively correlated. Results of the structural equation model further suggested that the positive effect of role conflicts on health problems was partially mediated by emotional exhaustion. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.