Occupational stress profiles of senior police managers: Cross-cultural study of officers from Berlin and northern Ireland

Senior police officers from Berlin and Northern Ireland have in common the task of policing divided communities and cohabiting with a military presence, and as such were expected to share similar profiles of job-related stressors and exhibit equivalent coping strategies. While some similarities were found, the study reports some interesting differences, with German officers emerging as more stressed and using a greater variety of coping strategies than those from Northern Ireland. Differences are discussed in terms of dimensions of duration and expectedness of threat.