Operational Police Stress Questionnaire (PSQ-Op)
HR & WorkReliability: alpha 0.924 sample items
About this scale
A 20-item measure of operational stressors specific to police officers — shift work, exposure to traumatic events, and physical demands.
Sample item(s)
“Shift work”
“Working alone at night”
“Risk of being injured on the job”
“Negative comments from the public”
Reliability
Reported internal consistency: alpha 0.92. As a rule of thumb, Cronbach’s α ≥ .70 is considered acceptable, ≥ .80 good, and ≥ .90 excellent for established measures.
Notes
Companion to PSQ-Org for organizational police stress.
Source & citation
McCreary, D. R., & Thompson, M. M. (2006): Development of two reliable and valid measures of stressors in policing: The operational and organizational police stress questionnaires. International Journal of Stress Management, Vol. 13, No. 4, pp. 494–518.
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