A Study On The Prison Police Job Burnout

Since the 80s of the 20th century, The concept of Job Burnout has been put forward, because of it’s universality and importance, gradually become to be the hot issue in the study of foreign scholars. After entering the 21st century, Job Burnout also caused the attention of Chinese scholars, the research of Job Burnout was involved in all trades, but the research about prison police’s Job Burnout are very rare.Job Burnout is gradually formed by the dynamic process, and ultimately to the form of static characteristics of the complex, it’s development is slowly, weakly and imperceptibly, and once the development beyond the critical point, the intense negative emotions and disruptive behavior will occur abruptly, and the ultimate development of the main manifestations ——physiological fatigue, psychological exhaustion and individual achievement sense of crisis. Due to the particularity of the prison police’s job environment, objects, roles and tasks, cause the prison police into the groups of high incidence of Job Burnout. Job Burnout will not only affect the performance of the police, but also will cause great harm to the safety of supervision. Therefore, it is very important to study the Job Burnout of prison police. This study taked ShangHai H prison as sample, through questionnaires survey, individual interviews and discussion, research the general situation and influencing factors of prison police’s Job Burnout, and put forward countermeasures to reduce job burnout.Based on the analysis of past research, this study put the 253 police of Shanghai H prison as the research object, design a questionnaire include of prison police’s basic information, Maslach Burnout Inventory scale (MBI-HSS) and burnout related information, using questionnaire survey, individual interviews and discussion to analyze the representation and reason of Shanghai H prison police’s Job Burnout.This study found that:Maslach Burnout Inventory scale (MBI-HSS) has good applicability in the prison police group, and the reliability and validity of the test results conform to the academic standard; Prison police exists a certain degree of Job Burnout, the police basic information variables influenced on the three dimensions of Job Burnout more or less; The reason of the prison police’s Job Burnout included three aspects of individual, organization and society.Finally, based on the above analysis, Put forward the countermeasures and suggestions to reduce the prison police job burnout, which mainly include:Further strengthen the police operation, management performance evaluation and promotion system construction; Broaden the police career development channel; Further strengthen the police classification management; Further implement the "preferential treatment from the police" policy.