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Midj FalconerDr Susan Klein

Professor David A Alexander

Resilience and Well-beingResilience and Well-beingin a Scottish Police Forcein a Scottish Police Force

Postgraduate Awayday 22nd September 2009

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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

GrampianPolice

FifeConstabularyN=2580

Baseline Questionnaire

Follow-up Questionnaire

Interviews

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Online Administration

•Benefits- Accessibility

- Coverage

- Questionnaire Management

• Hosting Management• Interview Management

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Project StatusConsultation

QuestionnaireDesign

Pilot StudyAugust 2009

Key Personnel Retired Police Officers

Main StudySeptember 2009

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For more information about the project contactMidj Falconer

m.falconer2@rgu.ac.uk

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