Occupational Stress in Spanish Police Officers: Validating the Effort-Reward Imbalance Questionnaire

The Effort-Reward Imbalance Questionnaire (hereinafter, ERIQ) has been largely used worldwide to assess job stress, but it has not yet been applied in Spanish police. The objective of this study was to examine the construct validity and the internal consistency of the ERIQ in police officers. A cross-sectional study was carried out, using a nonprobability sampling (quota). A total of 217 Spanish police officers participated, 192 men (88.47%) and 25 women (11.53%). The mean age was 41 years (SD = 7.51). These police officers completed the ERIQ together with some other questionnaires (DECORE-21, MBI, GHQ and STAI) in order to provide evidence for validity based on the relationships to other constructs. A confirmatory factor analysis was performed and a matrix of correlations with the rest of constructs was created. The results showed an appropriate fit to the original model consisting of three scales. In addition, the scales of the ERIQ presented the expected relationship with the other constructs. The ERIQ is a valid instrument for assessing occupational stress in Spanish police officers and can improve the interventions in this professional group.Depto. de Psicología Social, del Trabajo y DiferencialFac. de PsicologíaTRUEpu

Actualidad de la diversidad cultural en las empresas españolas: ¿barrera o ventaja competitiva?

Constant and rapid evolution is a main characteristic of our world today. New technologies, migration increase, expatriates, are all having a great impact in our society and organizations should take advantage of this situation. One of the most relevant facts of this new reality is the cultural diversity we discover in many domains. But, what does diversity mean? What workplace diversity do we find? What are organizations doing to deal with diversity? This paper (awarded with the II Cum Laude Manpower Research special award), tries to throw some light on these questions. The findings of this study show that a high percentage of companies have foreign employees and cultural diversity management is considered to impact organizations' results.La evolución constante que el mundo experimenta y la rapidez con la que ocurre, nos sitúa en diversos ambientes cambiantes a los que hemos de tratar de adaptarnos. Las nuevas tecnologías, la apertura de fronteras, el aumento de la migración, los trabajadores expatriados,…, están generando un gran impacto en la sociedad, que las organizaciones pueden y deben saber aprovechar. Uno de los hechos más relevantes de esta nueva realidad es la diversidad cultural existente en el ámbito laboral. Pero ¿qué es la diversidad? ¿Qué tipos de diversidad encontramos en las empresas? ¿Qué hacen éstas parar gestionar adecuadamente la diversidad cultural? El presente trabajo, reconocido con la mención especial en el II Premio Cum Laude de Investigación Manpower, pretende aportar claridad a estas cuestiones. Además, los resultados de nuestra investigación muestran que un alto porcentaje de las empresas analizadas cuentan con trabajadores extranjeros dentro de su plantilla y consideran que la gestión de la diversidad cultural influye en el funcionamiento de la organización

Evaluación de factores psicosociales en el entorno laboral

In this paper we are reviewing the main techniques to assess psychosocial factors within work context. First of all, we review what psychosocial factors stand for, specially, for those entities devoted to the protection and health of workers; further on, we explain the models from which, these risks and their relation with disease have more frequently been investigated: demand-control Model (Karasek, 1979; Karasek & Theorell, 1990) and effort-reward imbalance Model (Siegrist, 1996, 1998). To end with, we fully explain the main techniques used in work risk prevention in order to assess these factors, as well as the effort we are making from the Laboratory of Work Psychology and Security Studies of the Universidad Complutense of Madrid, UCM, to create and validate a questionnaire on psychosocial factors within work context: Decore Multidimensional Questionnaire (3). (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: journal abstract

Predicción del rendimiento laboral a partir de indicadores de motivación, personalidad y percepción de factores psicosociales

Depto. de Personalidad, Evaluación y Psicología ClínicaFac. de PsicologíaTRUEpu

Relación entre factores de riesgo psicosocial en el lugar de trabajo y la percepción de estrés en una muestra de trabajadores españoles

El artículo describe la investigación que tuvo como objetivo buscar la relación entre diferentes riesgos psicosociales del trabajo (Demandas cognitivas, Control,Recompensas y Apoyo organizacional)y la percepción de estrés. Los riesgos psicosociales fueron evaluados a través del Cuestionario DECORE. Se evaluaron a 1143 trabajadores de distintos sectores de actividad. Los resultados muestran que los empleados que perciben su entorno laboral como adverso se sienten más estresados, en comparación con los trabajadores que tienen una percepción más saludable de los riesgos psicosociales. Estas diferencias se observan para todos los riesgos psicosociales.Depto. de Psicología Social, del Trabajo y DiferencialFac. de PsicologíaTRUEpu

Occupational Stress in Spanish Police Officers: Validating the Effort-Reward Imbalance Questionnaire

The Effort-Reward Imbalance Questionnaire (hereinafter, ERIQ) has been largely used worldwide to assess job stress, but it has not yet been applied in Spanish police. The objective of this study was to examine the construct validity and the internal consistency of the ERIQ in police officers. A cross-sectional study was carried out, using a nonprobability sampling (quota). A total of 217 Spanish police officers participated, 192 men (88.47%) and 25 women (11.53%). The mean age was 41 years (SD = 7.51). These police officers completed the ERIQ together with some other questionnaires (DECORE-21, MBI, GHQ and STAI) in order to provide evidence for validity based on the relationships to other constructs. A confirmatory factor analysis was performed and a matrix of correlations with the rest of constructs was created. The results showed an appropriate fit to the original model consisting of three scales. In addition, the scales of the ERIQ presented the expected relationship with the other constructs. The ERIQ is a valid instrument for assessing occupational stress in Spanish police officers and can improve the interventions in this professional group