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Fakulteta za varnostne vede (Faculty of Criminal Justice and Security)
Slovenija
Short description of project
Insufficiency of empirical data as regarding staff in Croatian penal system resulted in conducting the scientific project involving wide spectrum of its characteristics, ranging from emotional well-being connected to job to consequences of caused stress like job burnout. The assessments will take into account emotional, contemplative, and behavioral components related to work, as well as some objective facts resulting from socio-demographic status. Numerous aspects of human actualization on working posts are researched, with highlight on autonomy, personal development, skills, and positive relationships. In field of subjective well-being related to work, the study involves satisfaction with work, as well as positive and negative emotions. Basic theoretical origins of this research lay in eudemonic and hedonistic perspective of well-being (Ryan, Deci, 2001), and the two theoretical points of view regarding a manner of generating subjective well-being: “bottom-up” and “top-down” (Diener, 1984, Costa, McCrae, Norris, 1981). Aims of project are to study correlation between aspects of human actualization and subjective well-being, as well as differences in assessment of well-being of prison staff given the socio-demographic variables, organizational units where they work and job positions they hold. The fundamental hypothesis is that different aspects of human self-actualization and subjective well-being related to job should statistically be significantly and positively inter connected. The main research based upon quantitative methodology has been ongoing, and representative quality of sample will be provided with minimum of 476 examinees, while taking into account representative share of the latter due to criteria of gender, age and organizational units in which they work. The applied instruments are: Work Locus of Control Scale (Spector, 1988), Job Satisfaction Survey (Spector, 1985), Factual Autonomy Scale (Spector, Fox, 2003), Organizational Constraints Scale (Spector, Jex, 1998), Physical Symptoms Inventory (Spector, Jex, 1998), Job-related Affective Well-being Scale (Van Katwyk, Fox, Spector, Kelloway, 2000), Maslach Burnout Inventory (Maslach, Jackson, 1981), Counterproductive Work Behavior (Spector, Fox, Penney, Bruursema, Goh, Kessler, 2003), Police Stress Questionnaire (McCreary, Thompson, M.M., 2006), Lifestyle Stress Test (Walters, 1998), Fear Checklist (Walters 1998), Values Inventory (Walters, 1998) and Questionaire on Socio-Demographic Features and Dome Characteristics of Work (Novak, Mikšaj-Todorović, Josipović, 2007) Next phase of research based upon qualitative methodology will involve forming few smaller representative samples that will represent the core group for gathering information in research fields identified by data from the main research. Key words: emotional well-being, staff, job, stress, burnout.
Short description of the task performed by Croatian partner
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