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It is the english version of the paper with DOI https://doi.org/10.57776/CMCE-SK98

No decurso da sua longa e ativa carreira académica, o Professor Luciano Lourenço desenvolveu uma intensa atividade de interação e cooperação com instituições, grupos de investigação, profissionais de diversas áreas de atividade e do conhecimento, em estreita associação à sua atividade científica e docente, mas também consequência do seu caráter bei...

Policing is a stressful occupation, which impairs police officers' physical/mental health and elicits burnout, aggressive behaviors and suicide. Resilience and coping facilitate the management of job stress policing, which can be operational or organizational. All these constructs are associated, and they must be assessed by instruments sensitive t...

Research has demonstrated that policing is a stressful occupation and that this stress has a negative impact on police officers’ mental and physical health, performance, and interactions with citizens. Mental health at the workplace has become a concern due to the costs of depression, anxiety, burnout, and even suicide, which is high among police o...

Background: Police officers, as first responders to difficult situations with ready access to firearms, are frequently considered to be at increased suicide risk. Aims: We aimed to calculate the suicide rate for male officers of the Portuguese National Police (PSP) and compare it with the Portuguese general population. Method: Retrospective review...

Background According literature, policing is one of the most stressful occupations, affecting police officers’health (Habersaat et al., 2015). They are repeatedly exposed to operational stressors in the form of unpredictable and potentially dangerous or traumatic situations (Albuerne et al., 2015; Balmer et al., 2014; Yung et al., 2015). Studies as...

This study was designed to assess the factor structure and the internal consistency of the Portuguese adaptation of the "Spanish Burnout Inventory" (SBI) in a sample of 245 Portuguese police offi cers working in Lisbon. Using an Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA), 4 factors were extracted with eigenvalue > 1, reproducing the original model: the fi r...

This study investigated the influence of stress appraisal and coping on work engagement levels (Absorption, Vigour, and Dedication) of police recruits. Participants were 387 men, ages 20 to 33 yr. (M = 24.1, SD = 2.4), in their last month of academy training before becoming police officers. Partially in support of predictions, work engagement was a...