Researcher part 2

Article Review: Research Question And Hypothesis

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Article Review: Research Question And Hypothesis

The research question of the article was “ How officers rate work stressors and the frequencies at which these stressors occur ” (Violanti et al., 2016) The research used the question to discuss the five highly rated and most frequent occupational stressors in the police field. The study compared frequency, prevalence, and rating of the stressors to gender. The study also focused on the frequency aspect as described in the research question because as the authors explain, ratings may be strongly influenced by incidence of occurrence. The study focused on frequencies because previous studies had reported police events that generated the most stress to police, but no special attention had been drawn to their frequency.

There were no hypotheses stated in the article. This is because the article does not propose an argument that can be tested to determine whether it is true, which is characteristic of a hypothesis (Toledo, Flikkema, & Toledo-Pereyra, 2011). The article does not construct any hypothesis prior to the study. The article aims at identifying general top stressors of police work and their frequencies of occurrences. This aim is made clear at the beginning of the article by the researchers and in the conclusion, the top five stressors together with their frequencies are given. There were no hypotheses constructed at the beginning of the research, hence no arguments are tested in the discussion or the conclusion.

References

Toledo, A. H., Flikkema, R., & Toledo-Pereyra, L. H. (2011). Developing the research hypothesis. Journal of Investigative Surgery, 24(5), 191-194.

Violanti, J. M., Fekedulegn, D., Hartley, T. A., Charles, L. E., Andrew, M. E., Ma, C. C., & Burchfiel, C. M. (2016). Highly rated and most frequent stressors among police officers: Gender differences. American journal of criminal justice, 41(4), 645-662.