The good life: Exploring the effects job stress, job involvement, job satisfaction, and organizational commitment on the life satisfaction of police officers
| Author | Hanif Qureshi,James Frank,Eric G. Lambert |
| Date | 01 September 2021 |
| DOI | 10.1177/14613557211016494 |
| Published date | 01 September 2021 |
| Subject Matter | Articles |
Article
The good life: Exploring the effects job
stress, job involvement, job satisfaction,
and organizational commitment on the
life satisfaction of police officers
Eric G. Lambert
Department of Criminal Justice, The University of Nevada, Reno, USA
Hanif Qureshi
Inspector General of Police, Chandigarh, India
James Frank
School of Criminal Justice, The University of Cincinnati, USA
Abstract
Life satisfaction is an important concept for both police and other law enforcement organizations. Past research on the
spillover theory has found that higher life satisfaction results in better physical health, being more open-minded, improved
effort, and longer life expectancy. The spillover theory holds what happens at work does not stay at work but spills over
and affects a person’s overall life. Workplace variables, particularly job stress, job involvement, job satisfaction, and
organizational commitment do not just affect people at work, but also affect people’s satisfaction with their overall
lives. The current study examined how job stress, job involvement, job satisfaction, and organizational commitment
were associated with life satisfaction among a sample of 827 police officers from the state of Haryana in India. In a
multivariate ordinary least squares regression analysis, job stress had a significant negative effect on life satisfaction,
whereas job involvement, job satisfaction, and organizational commitment had significant positive effects. The results
suggest that police administrators should attempt to lower job stress and increase job involvement, job satisfaction, and
organizational commitment among officers to raise their life satisfaction, which, in turn, should benefit the individual
officers, the police agency, and the community being served.
Keywords
Police officers, life satisfaction, job stress, job involvement, job satisfaction, organizational commitment, India
Submitted 09 Dec 2019, Revise received 14 Dec 2020, accepted 21 Apr 2021
Across the globe, the police provide important servi ces.
Police departments are labor-intensive organizations that
exist to serve and protect the public (Roberg et al., 2012).
Officers perform many tasks to meet their organization’s
mission, goals, and objectives. Not only do police officers
have significant effects on their organizations, but, through
workplace factors, police organizations have significant
effects on their officers. A growing body of research has
examined how workplace factors affect officers. This
research has explored how workplace variables affect offi-
cers’ job stress, job involvement, job satisfaction, and orga-
nizational commitment (Currie and Dollery, 2006;
Corresponding author:
Eric G. Lambert, Department of Criminal Justice, The University of
Nevada, AB601D, Mail Stop 0214, 1664 North Virginia Street, Reno,
NV 89557, USA.
Email: elambert55555@hotmail.com
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