Towards healthy organisation in correctional setting: Correctional officers' wellness, occupational stress and personality
Correctional officers always confronted with two interrelated issues: wellness and stress at work. Correctional officers’ wellness was irrefutable due to intense pressure conditions at the workplace that continuously faltered their wellness.Gradual wellness fluctuation due to excessive stress would...
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| author | Ahmad Marzuki, Najib Ku Ishak, Awanis |
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| description | Correctional officers always confronted with two interrelated issues: wellness and stress at work. Correctional officers’ wellness was irrefutable due to intense pressure conditions at the workplace that continuously faltered their wellness.Gradual wellness fluctuation due to excessive stress would severely tarnish performance of correctional officers and prison department.Nevertheless, their personality played an important role in conserving their wellness level despite continuous overrun of stress during work.Therefore this paper elaborated on correctional officers’ personality and occupational stress in order to maintain their
wellness at work.This research examined the relationship between correctional officers’ wellness, their personality and occupational stress in Prison Department of Malaysia.Pertinent question of the study was to look at influence of
correctional officers’ personality and occupational stress on their wellness degree.
These findings were significant since correctional officers’ wellness, their personality and occupational stress remained loose issue particularly in Malaysia.Findings revealed that personality and occupational stress influenced correctional officers’ health and well being. |
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| spelling | uum-207692017-01-30T02:07:14Z https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/20769/ Towards healthy organisation in correctional setting: Correctional officers' wellness, occupational stress and personality Ahmad Marzuki, Najib Ku Ishak, Awanis BF Psychology Correctional officers always confronted with two interrelated issues: wellness and stress at work. Correctional officers’ wellness was irrefutable due to intense pressure conditions at the workplace that continuously faltered their wellness.Gradual wellness fluctuation due to excessive stress would severely tarnish performance of correctional officers and prison department.Nevertheless, their personality played an important role in conserving their wellness level despite continuous overrun of stress during work.Therefore this paper elaborated on correctional officers’ personality and occupational stress in order to maintain their wellness at work.This research examined the relationship between correctional officers’ wellness, their personality and occupational stress in Prison Department of Malaysia.Pertinent question of the study was to look at influence of correctional officers’ personality and occupational stress on their wellness degree. These findings were significant since correctional officers’ wellness, their personality and occupational stress remained loose issue particularly in Malaysia.Findings revealed that personality and occupational stress influenced correctional officers’ health and well being. The Social Sciences Research Society 2011 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/20769/1/IJSSHS%203%202%202011%20355%20365.pdf Ahmad Marzuki, Najib and Ku Ishak, Awanis (2011) Towards healthy organisation in correctional setting: Correctional officers' wellness, occupational stress and personality. International Journal of Social Sciences and Humanity Studies (IJ-SSHS), 3 (2). pp. 355-365. ISSN 1309-8063 http://www.sobiad.org/ejournals/journal_ijss/arhieves/2011_2/najib_ahmad_marzuki.pdf |
| spellingShingle | BF Psychology Ahmad Marzuki, Najib Ku Ishak, Awanis Towards healthy organisation in correctional setting: Correctional officers' wellness, occupational stress and personality |
| title | Towards healthy organisation in correctional setting: Correctional officers' wellness, occupational stress and personality |
| title_full | Towards healthy organisation in correctional setting: Correctional officers' wellness, occupational stress and personality |
| title_fullStr | Towards healthy organisation in correctional setting: Correctional officers' wellness, occupational stress and personality |
| title_full_unstemmed | Towards healthy organisation in correctional setting: Correctional officers' wellness, occupational stress and personality |
| title_short | Towards healthy organisation in correctional setting: Correctional officers' wellness, occupational stress and personality |
| title_sort | towards healthy organisation in correctional setting correctional officers wellness occupational stress and personality |
| topic | BF Psychology |
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