The aim of this study is to examine the applicability of verified organizational and operational stress questionnaires, originally designed for police officers, to students preparing for a career in the police. The study was conducted by surveying students using adapted questionnaires, in which five questions in the organizational questionnaire and six in the professional questionnaire were modified to reflect student activities. The findings indicate the following: 1) organizational and operational stressors were ranked according to their intensity (risk), with certain exceptions identified; 2) very strong positive correlations were found between the mean values of organizational and operational stress (e.g., Pearson correlation coefficient for the entire sample amounts to r = 0.989, p 0.01), suggesting that managing one type of stressor enables effective management of the other; 3) organizational stressors were found to be more intense, and therefore more risky, than operational stressors; 4) female students were exposed to more intense stress than male students, and 5) both questionnaires demonstrated very high reliability (Cronbach's Alpha coefficient: organizational (α = 0.933) and operational (α = 0.900).
Dane Subošić (Wed,) studied this question.