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The Emotionally Intelligent Officer? Exploring Decision-Making Style and Emotional Intelligence in Hostage and Crisis Negotiators and Non-Negotiator Trained Police Officers

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Grubb, Amy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2918-6534, Brown, S.J. and Hall, P. (2018) The Emotionally Intelligent Officer? Exploring Decision-Making Style and Emotional Intelligence in Hostage and Crisis Negotiators and Non-Negotiator Trained Police Officers. Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology, 33 (2). pp. 123-136. ISSN 0882-0783 Online: 1936-6469

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The research described in this article explores decision-making styles and levels of emotional intelligence displayed by police hostage and crisis negotiators in the United Kingdom. One hundred and seventeen negotiators from 21 police forces took part in the research and their data were compared with 118 non-negotiator trained police officers and 203 university students. Participants completed the General Decision-Making Style Questionnaire (Scott & Bruce, 1995) and the Emotional Intelligence Inventory (Gignac, 2007), with data analysed using multivariate analysis of covariance (MANCOVA) and t-tests. When controlling for the effects of age and social desirability, significant differences were found between both police samples and the student sample. All police officers displayed significantly lower levels of avoidant decision-making and significantly higher levels of overall emotional intelligence than students and these findings were also reflected within certain facets of emotional intelligence, specifically. These findings provide support for the existence of a unique ‘police officer profile’, but fail to support the premise of a distinct ‘hostage and crisis negotiator profile’ within the UK police population. The findings are discussed with relevance to the practice of hostage and crisis negotiation and future research directions.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	Staff and students at the University of Worcester can access the full-text of the published articel via the UW online library search. External users should check availability with their local library or Interlibrary Requests Service.
Uncontrolled Discrete Keywords:	hostage and crisis negotiator, hostage and crisis negotiation, decision-making style, emotional intelligence, police officer selection
Subjects:	B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology
Divisions:	College of Business, Psychology and Sport > School of Psychology
Related URLs:	Publisher http://library.worc.ac.uk/
Depositing User:	Amy Grubb
Date Deposited:	20 Jun 2017 08:29
Last Modified:	17 Jun 2020 17:17
URI:	https://eprints.worc.ac.uk/id/eprint/5600

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