From a systems perspective, this study explored how law enforcement officers balance the work and marriage/family relationship. Specifically, the study examined personal authority in the family system and investigated how it relates to job involvement, intimacy, and marital adjustment. Secondly, personal authority was combined with job involvement, age, number of years married, and number of years in law enforcement in order to determine the effects of these variables on intimacy and intimate relationships/marriage. / Instruments used to collect this information were a demographic data sheet, the Personal Authority Scale of the Personal Authority in Family Systems Questionnaire, Job Involvement Measure, the Emotional Intimacy Scale of the Personal Assessment of Intimacy in Relationships, and Locke-Wallace Marital Adjustment Test. Subjects were career police officers (n = 72) employed by the City of Tallahassee, Florida. / This ex post facto study used path analysis to calculate causal relationships. Hypothesis 1 stated that a causal relationship existed between personal authority, job involvement, and level of intimacy. The data did not support this hypothesis when using the entire sample. However, the a priori model of emotional intimacy was supported in a married/never divorced subsample. / Hypothesis 2 predicted that a negative relationship existed between personal authority and job involvement. This relationship was not supported. / Hypothesis 3 stated there was a causal relationship between personal authority, job involvement, and marital adjustment. There was not support for this hypothesis. / Additional analysis included a significant single order correlation between emotional intimacy and marital adjustment, and found that emotional intimacy and marital adjustment discriminated among groups of married and divorced officers. / Results were examined with respect to method, sample, future research, and implications for marriage therapy. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 52-02, Section: A, page: 0697. / Major Professor: Mary W. Hicks. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1990.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_78415 |
| Contributors | O'Kelley, Sue Summerhill., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 206 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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