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The Impact of Stress on Police Officers’ Coordination and De-Escalation Behaviour
Kampen, Amber van (2024) The Impact of Stress on Police Officers’ Coordination and De-Escalation Behaviour.
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| Abstract: | Critical action teams, such as police teams, are faced with everchanging situations that require swift action to control the situation. Police officers use coordination and de-escalation behaviours to achieve this. However, acute stress, which is inherent to their job, affects individuals' coordination and task performance by impairing their cognitive abilities. However, it remains unclear how stress affects both coordination and de-escalation behaviours in critical action teams over time, as most studies fail to adopt a temporal lens. Novel, wearable technologies open up avenues for this line of research. Therefore, this study uses a multimodal approach in a simulated training environment, using both video observation and physiological data to gain fine-grained insights into the combination of behaviours and stress. First, it was found that the moments of simultaneous stress differed across the three scenarios. Second, during moments of simultaneous stress, police officers displayed more explicit than implicit coordination behaviours compared to moments of simultaneous no-stress. Third, during moments of simultaneous stress, the de-escalation behaviour listen was displayed more, whilst during moments of simultaneous no-stress, the de-escalation behaviours empower and honesty were displayed more. These findings expand the theory on stress-induced selective attention and showcase the usefulness of simulated training environments. |
| Item Type: | Essay (Master) |
| Faculty: | BMS: Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences |
| Subject: | 70 social sciences in general |
| Programme: | Educational Science and Technology MSc (60023) |
| Link to this item: | https://purl.utwente.nl/essays/104463 |
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