Resilience and Adaptive Capacity in Police Officers and Organizations

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1. Resiliency factors among police officers
Resiliency factors are important for police officers since they can adapt and handle stressful, challenging, and hurtful situations. Some of these factors include psychological capital, hardiness, and resilience. Hardiness determines how a person copes with problems. Hardiness is a psychological skill for police officers and leads to positive outcomes once the person experiences trauma or stress (Janssens et al., 2021). Psychological capital entails a combination of hope, optimism, self-efficacy, and resilience. Resilience is a dynamic concept that entails coping with trauma and adversity. It entails the capacity for an individual to deal with future occurrences of negative events.
2. Developing resilience and adaptive capacity in police officers and organizations
The best way to develop adaptive capacity and resilience in police officers and organizations is through experience. This means that the police officers have to undergo different situations to learn how to cope with issues. Developing resilience is more like an outcome, for instance, a ...