TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2014//
TI  - A psychometric properties of the Malay-version Police Stress Questionnaire
JO  - Malaysian journal of medical sciences
A1  - Irniza, Rasdi
A1  - Emilia, Zainal Abidin
A1  - Muhammad Saliluddin, Suhainizam
A1  - Nizam Isha, Ahmad Shahrul
SP  - 42
EP  - 50
VL  - 21
IS  - 4
N2  - BACKGROUND: Police Stress Questionnaire (PSQ) was developed to measure police-specific stressors. The present study was the first to have translated the PSQ to Malay. This study aims to test the reliability, construct validity, and component structure of the Malay-version PSQ. <br><br>METHODS: A set of survey consisted of the Malay-version PSQ, General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12), Job Content Questionnaire (JCQ), Global Stress Questionnaire (GSQ) and General Self-rated Health (GSRH) were distributed to 300 traffic police officers in Kuala Lumpur and all traffic police officers in a few districts of Pahang and Negeri Sembilan. <br><br>RESULTS: The response rate was 65.5% (N = 262). The reported Cronbach's alpha coefficient was 0.93 for Operational PSQ (PSQ-Op) and 0.94 for Organisational PSQ (PSQ-Org). <br><br>FINDINGS indicated that the PSQ had positive construct validity with the GSRH, GSQ, and GHQ. After excluding four factors related to lifestyles, all police-specific stressors were highly loaded (0.50) in one component. <br><br>CONCLUSION: It is confirmed that the Malay-version PSQ, excluding the four factors related to lifestyle, was uni-dimensional, reliable, and a valid questionnaire. This study proffers a potentially better instrument for assessing the stressors among Malaysian police.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1394-195X
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -