University of Worcester Worcester Research and Publications
 
  USER PANEL:
  ABOUT THE COLLECTION:
  CONTACT DETAILS:

Personality Traits and Coping Styles in UK Police Officers. Do Negotiators Differ From Their Non-negotiator Colleagues?

Grubb, Amy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2918-6534, Brown, S. and Hall, P. (2015) Personality Traits and Coping Styles in UK Police Officers. Do Negotiators Differ From Their Non-negotiator Colleagues? Psychology, Crime & Law, 21 (4). pp. 347-374. ISSN Print: 1068-316X Online: 1477-2744

Full text not available from this repository. (Request a copy)

Abstract

In this piece of research, the traits and characteristics held by police hostage (crisis) negotiators in the UK are explored, with specific reference to personality, coping style and cognitive emotion regulation. One hundred and seventeen hostage negotiators from 21 UK police forces took part in the research and their data were compared with 118 non-negotiator police officers and 203 university students. Participants completed the Big Five Inventory (BFI), the Coping Skills Test-Revised (CST-R) and the Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (CERQ) and their data were compared using multivariate analysis of variance and discriminant function analysis. Findings confirmed the existence of a ‘police personality/profile’ with significant differences obtained between both police samples and the student sample on all three constructs; however, the findings demonstrated little support for the concept of a unique ‘hostage negotiator personality/profile’. Gender differences were also explored, with significant differences observed across male and female participants for all three dependent variables. No significant interaction effects were observed, however, suggesting that the effect of gender on personality, coping style and cognitive emotion regulation was independent of group membership. The findings are discussed with relevance to hostage negotiator and police officer selection and training practices.

Item Type: Article
Additional Information:

Staff and students at the University of Worcester can access the full-text of the online published article via the UW online library search. External users should check availability with their local library or Interlibrary Requests Service.

Uncontrolled Discrete Keywords: hostage negotiation, crisis negotiation, police personality, coping style, cognitive emotion regulation
Subjects: B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology
H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare
K Law > K Law (General)
Divisions: College of Business, Psychology and Sport > School of Psychology
Related URLs:
Depositing User: Amy Grubb
Date Deposited: 22 May 2019 10:06
Last Modified: 17 Jun 2020 17:29
URI: https://eprints.worc.ac.uk/id/eprint/8027

Actions (login required)

View Item View Item
 
     
Worcester Research and Publications is powered by EPrints 3 which is developed by the School of Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton. More information and software credits.