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Attentional and interpersonal styles of active police officers
Drevets, Pamela W.
Drevets, Pamela W.
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The purpose of this study was to compare the attentional and interpersonal styles of the Lawrence Police Department (LPD) police officers with college student norms as measured by the Test of Attentional and Interpersonal Style (TAIS). It was a subproblem of the study to compare TAIS results of senior LPD police officers with TAIS results of junior LPD police officers.
Twenty-six volunteers from the LPD were active, male police officers who served as subjects for this comparative investigation. For each subject, each of the 17 TAIS factors were assessed. Therefore, the 17 means were generated for the police officers and were compared to college student norms through t-testing to determine whether LPD police officers had any attentional and/or interpersonal factors that were significantly different from college norms. Secondly, the 17 means for junior LPD police officers were compared to those of senior LPD police officers to determine whether junior LPD police officers had any attentional and/or interpersonal factors significantly different from senior LPD police officers. The .05 level of significance was used.
The LPD police officer group was found to be significantly different from college student norms on four of the 17 subscales of the TAIS. Specifically, LPD police officers were found to be involved in a busier environment, in need of more control in interpersonal interactions, less introverted, and less intellectually expressive.
Similarly, junior LPD police officers were found to be significantly different from the senior LPD police officers on six of the 17 subscales of the TAIS. Specifically, junior officers were found to be more able to broaden attentional width to the external environment, more able to narrow attentional width, in need of more control in interpersonal interactions, more physically oriented, more intellectually expressive, and more expressive of negative affect.
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M.S. Ed. University of Kansas, Health, Physical Education, and Recreation 1984
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1984-05-31
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