일선경찰관과 상급자의 무만족도와 교육수준: 인구사회학적 특성을 중심으로 = Police Officer Job Satisfaction and Officer-Sergeant Educational Levels: A Relational Demography

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The goal of this study is to add to the limited knowledge of police officer job satisfaction in regards to educational level differences among supervisors and officers. For this reason, this study attempts to answer the following questions. 1) Does officers`` educational level impact their job satisfaction? 2) Does sergeants`` education level impact their subordinate officers`` job satisfaction? 3) Does the difference between officers`` and sergeants`` educational level impact officers`` job satisfaction? Before mailing the survey to l1,083 agencies, 17 sworn officers from 14 different agencies were administered a pre-test of the survey. With the application of three step statistical procedure, the results were able to answer our three research questions. Firstly, officers’ education level was statistically significant in relation to job satisfaction, but in a negative direction. Secondly, this study did not find any significance in sergeants’ education level and job satisfaction. During the bivariate analysis, it showed significant statistical relationship among three discrepancy levels of officer and sergeant education compared to job satisfaction. However, Data this study used did not include a time dimension where the progress or decrease of job satisfaction could be measured according to increase of time.