NCJ Number
170332
Date Published
1996
Length
12 pages
Annotation
This Czechoslovak study tested the hypotheses that there would be a significant negative (positive) correlation between the job satisfaction (frustration) of the police officers in the sample and the measure of their unethical attitudes, and that this correlation would be closer in a group of police officers whose narcissism is above average than in a group of those below average in narcissism.
Abstract
Two instruments were administered to a sample of 121 Czech police officers. One was the questionnaire used in Hyams' (1990) study of role perception and narcissism and the attitudes toward professional ethical behavior among police officers. The second instrument was the modification of Porter's (1961) questionnaire used in the study of the needs of the middle-level managers. The latter contains 15 items designed to provide information about various needs derived from Maslow's theory. Each respondent was asked to rate the importance of the need personally and satisfaction with the fulfillment of this need in real life. The measure of job frustration was the difference between these two ratings. Both of the hypotheses were confirmed. Further, the findings show that the specific job satisfaction/frustration can lead to specific ethical attitudes, but the relationships are more complex than in the case of those using total measures. The effect of narcissism upon these partial relations was also more complex. 4 tables and appended study instruments