Author(s):
Robert-Jacek Gorzka, Klaus Michael Reininger, Marius Wonschik & Eckhard Hoffmann
Institution:
Bundeswehrkrankenhaus Hamburg
Title:
Adaptation and coping processes during the foreign operations of German police officers
Abstract:
Using a longitudinal design, we explore psychological factors of successful adaptation and coping processes in German police officers being in a foreign mission. In order to create a scale, we conducted interviews with homecoming police officers. Furthermore, we collected qualitative and quantitative data of two homecoming police officers regarding the variables: Adaptation, self-esteem, degree of professional behavior in terms of mission-specific ability in mastering one's emotions, stress and coping behavior. We observed intrapersonal changes of these variables over time, and cross-sectional as well as longitudinal correlations applying descriptive and statistical single-case methods: Police officer’s most important experienced stress derives from the persistent threatening during foreign mission. Furthermore, police officer’s coping behaviors are processual, combined, and depend on the duration of one’s foreign mission.
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