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© Professor David Alexander Midj Falconer Dr Susan Klein Professor David A Alexander Resilience and Well-being Resilience and Well-being in a Scottish Police Force in a Scottish Police Force Postgraduate Awayday 22 nd September 2009

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© Professor David Alexander

Midj FalconerDr Susan Klein

Professor David A Alexander

Resilience and Well-beingResilience and Well-being

in a Scottish Police Forcein a Scottish Police Force

Postgraduate Awayday 22nd September 2009

© Professor David Alexander

Project Objectives

• To identify:

- Resilience and vulnerability factors.

- The mechanisms which promote positive and adaptive outcomes.

• To compare findings with the benchmark study ‘Police Stress at Work’ by Alexander et al (1993).

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Project Aims

• To develop organisational practices to augment the resilience and well-being of Police Officers.

• To reduce levels of sickness absence and ill-health retiral.

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Project Design

LongitudinalStudy

LongitudinalStudy

GrampianPolice

GrampianPolice

FifeConstabulary

FifeConstabulary

N=2580N=2580

Baseline Questionnaire

Baseline Questionnaire

Follow-up Questionnaire

Follow-up Questionnaire

InterviewsInterviews

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Online Administration

•Benefits

- Accessibility

- Coverage

- Questionnaire Management

• Hosting Management

• Interview Management

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Project Status

ConsultationConsultation

QuestionnaireDesign

QuestionnaireDesign

Pilot StudyAugust 2009Pilot Study

August 2009

Key PersonnelKey Personnel Retired Police OfficersRetired Police Officers

Main StudySeptember 2009

Main StudySeptember 2009

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For more information about the project contactMidj Falconer

[email protected]

Aberdeen Centre for Trauma ResearchFaculty of Health and Social Care/

Institute for Health and Welfare Research Robert Gordon UniversityAberdeen, Scotland, UK

www.rgu.ac.uk/actr