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© Professor David Alexander
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