Preventing occupational injury among police officers: does motivation matter?
Background: Injury prevention is an important issue for police officers, but the effectiveness of prevention initiatives is dependent on officers' motivation toward, and adherence to, recommended health and safety guidelines. Aims: To understand effects of police officers' motivation to pr...
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2017
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| author | Chan, Derwin Webb, D. Ryan, R. Tang, T. Yang, S.X. Ntoumanis, Nikos Hagger, Martin |
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| description | Background: Injury prevention is an important issue for police officers, but the effectiveness of prevention initiatives is dependent on officers' motivation toward, and adherence to, recommended health and safety guidelines. Aims: To understand effects of police officers' motivation to prevent occupational injury on beliefs about safety and adherence to injury prevention behaviours. Methods: Full-time police officers completed a survey comprising validated psychometric scales to assess autonomous, controlled and amotivated forms of motivation (Treatment Self-Regulation Questionnaire), behavioural adherence (Self-reported Treatment Adherence Scale) and beliefs (Safety Attitude Questionnaire) with respect to injury prevention behaviours. Results: There were 207 participants; response rate was 87%. Hierarchical multiple regression analyses demonstrated that autonomous motivation was positively related to behavioural adherence, commitment to safety and prioritizing injury prevention. Controlled motivation was a positive predictor of safety communication barriers. Amotivation was positively associated with fatalism regarding injury prevention, safety violation and worry. Conclusions: These findings are consistent with the tenets of self-determination theory in that autonomous motivation was a positive predictor of adaptive safety beliefs and adherence to injury prevention behaviours. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-569052020-07-23T07:58:22Z Preventing occupational injury among police officers: does motivation matter? Chan, Derwin Webb, D. Ryan, R. Tang, T. Yang, S.X. Ntoumanis, Nikos Hagger, Martin Background: Injury prevention is an important issue for police officers, but the effectiveness of prevention initiatives is dependent on officers' motivation toward, and adherence to, recommended health and safety guidelines. Aims: To understand effects of police officers' motivation to prevent occupational injury on beliefs about safety and adherence to injury prevention behaviours. Methods: Full-time police officers completed a survey comprising validated psychometric scales to assess autonomous, controlled and amotivated forms of motivation (Treatment Self-Regulation Questionnaire), behavioural adherence (Self-reported Treatment Adherence Scale) and beliefs (Safety Attitude Questionnaire) with respect to injury prevention behaviours. Results: There were 207 participants; response rate was 87%. Hierarchical multiple regression analyses demonstrated that autonomous motivation was positively related to behavioural adherence, commitment to safety and prioritizing injury prevention. Controlled motivation was a positive predictor of safety communication barriers. Amotivation was positively associated with fatalism regarding injury prevention, safety violation and worry. Conclusions: These findings are consistent with the tenets of self-determination theory in that autonomous motivation was a positive predictor of adaptive safety beliefs and adherence to injury prevention behaviours. 2017 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/56905 10.1093/occmed/kqx076 Oxford University Press fulltext |
| spellingShingle | Chan, Derwin Webb, D. Ryan, R. Tang, T. Yang, S.X. Ntoumanis, Nikos Hagger, Martin Preventing occupational injury among police officers: does motivation matter? |
| title | Preventing occupational injury among police officers: does motivation matter? |
| title_full | Preventing occupational injury among police officers: does motivation matter? |
| title_fullStr | Preventing occupational injury among police officers: does motivation matter? |
| title_full_unstemmed | Preventing occupational injury among police officers: does motivation matter? |
| title_short | Preventing occupational injury among police officers: does motivation matter? |
| title_sort | preventing occupational injury among police officers: does motivation matter? |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/56905 |