Job-related burnout is a significant concern for researchers, law enforcement administrators, and government authorities because of its broader effects on officer health, job performance, and service provided to the public. This topic is particularly relevant amidst a variety of complex challenges and heightened scrutiny surrounding law enforcement officers, their decisions, and relations with the public. Although much work has been conducted on burnout among police officers, the aim of this study is to build on the literature through analyzing survey data from roughly 13,000 sworn respondents representing 89 agencies throughout the United States to describe the extent of two components of burnout—emotional exhaustion and depersonalization. Then, based on Leiter and Maslach’s (2004) six areas of worklife, this study uses multivariate analysis to identify the primary predictors of those two components of burnout and how they are shaped by the characteristics of the agencies and communities in which these officers work. The analysis indicates approximately 19% of the total sample was experiencing severe levels of emotional exhaustion and 13% had extreme values of depersonalization. In addition, regression analyses suggest that specific measures of workload and values were the strongest predictors of emotional exhaustion, while depersonalization was driven by similar factors in addition to a measure of community that tapped into relations with the public. Furthermore, little empirical support was found for the importance of agency and community-level variables as predictors of either component of burnout. A discussion of how to translate those results into efforts to mitigate burnout is also presented.

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蓝色的倦怠：美国执法人员倦怠的程度和主要预测因素分析

与工作相关的职业倦怠是研究人员，执法行政人员和政府当局的重大关切，因为它对官员的健康，工作绩效和向公众提供的服务产生了更广泛的影响。在各种复杂的挑战以及对执法人员，他们的决定以及与公众的关系的严格审查中，该主题尤其重要。尽管在警务人员的倦怠方面已进行了大量工作，但本研究的目的是通过分析代表全美国89个机构的大约13,000名宣誓就职者的调查数据，以文献为基础来描述倦怠的两个组成部分-情绪精疲力竭和个性化。然后，根据Leiter和Maslach（2004）的六个工作领域，这项研究使用多元分析来确定倦怠的这两个组成部分的主要预测因素，以及这些因素是由这些官员工作所在的机构和社区的特征来决定的。分析表明，总样本中约有19％经历了严重的精神疲惫，而13％的人格化程度极高。此外，回归分析表明，工作量和价值观的具体衡量指标是情绪疲惫的最强预测指标，而去人格化是由除与社区建立联系的衡量指标外，还由类似因素驱动的。此外，对于代理和社区级变量作为倦怠的任何一个因素的预测因素的重要性，几乎没有经验支持。