Giornale Italiano di Medicina del Lavoro ed Ergonomia
Volume 33, Issue SUPPL. 3, 2011, Pages 170-174

The coping and support activities in the phenomenon of mass immigration in italy: Evaluation of work-related stress in police forces [L'attività di accoglienza e sostegno nel fenomeno di immigrazione di massa in Italia: Valutazione dello stress lavoro-correlato nelle Forze di Polizia] (Conference Paper)

Garbarino S.* , Magnavita N. , Ciprani F. , Cuomo G.
  • a Department of Neuroscience, Ophthalmology and Genetics, University of Genoa, Italy, Department of Occupational and Legal Medicine, University of Genoa, Italy, Police Health Service Department, Ministry of the Interior, Italy
  • b Institute of Occupational Medicine, Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy
  • c Police Health Service Department, Ministry of the Interior, Italy
  • d Police Health Service Department, Ministry of the Interior, Italy

Abstract

The recent emergence of new democracies in North Africa results in a massive wave of immigration in Europe with thousands landing in recent months on the coast of southern Italy. This phenomenon has caused major problems of public order (PO), worsened by the presence of ever-increasing numbers of immigrants and multiculturalism, exposing the Special Forces of the Italian State Police in periods of intense work-related stress. Aims: To explore the relationship between work context (OP routine i.e. mass migration control vs. OP extraordinary i.e. the G8 summit) of special force policemen and psychological measures of job strain (demand-control, JCQ and effort-reward imbalance, ERI) related to objective measure (sickness absences). Conclusions: data showed that in special police forces routine work as migration control is significantly more stressful than a single special event that presents a very high risk for law enforcement, probably due to positive changes in psychosocial work environment among special police force. © PI-ME, Pavia 2011.

Author Keywords

Police forces Immigration Work related-stress

Index Keywords

Stress, Psychological mental stress Occupational Diseases police Emigration and Immigration Italy Adaptation, Psychological social support adaptive behavior Conference Paper occupational disease human Humans migration
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ISSN: 15927830
Cited by: 3
Original Language: Italian