Causal Model Analysis of Police Officers’ COVID-19 Fear, Resistance to Organizational Change Effect on Emotional Exhaustion and Insomnia

Wen-Ling Hung and Hsiang-Te Liu ()
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Wen-Ling Hung: Department of Criminal Justice, Ming Chuan University, Taoyuan 333, Taiwan
Hsiang-Te Liu: Department of Public Affairs and Administration, Ming Chuan University, Taoyuan 333, Taiwan

IJERPH, 2022, vol. 19, issue 16, 1-18

Abstract: Since the end of 2019, COVID-19 has continued to spread around the world. The police have performed various epidemic prevention and routine duties. This study explores how police officers’ COVID-19 fear, resistance to organizational change, intolerance of uncertainty, and secondary trauma affect emotional exhaustion and insomnia in the context of COVID-19. A total of 205 valid police samples were collected in this study, and the established hypotheses were tested using confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modeling. The results of the study confirmed that during the COVID-19 outbreak, secondary trauma of police officers positively affects emotional exhaustion and insomnia; intolerance of uncertainty positively affects emotional exhaustion; resistance to organizational change positively affects intolerance of uncertainty and emotional exhaustion; intolerance of uncertainty mediates the relationship between resistance to organizational change and emotional exhaustion; COVID-19 fear positively influences secondary trauma.

Keywords: intolerance of uncertainty; secondary trauma; emotional exhaustion; insomnia; COVID-19 fear; resistance to organizational change (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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