Job Stress of a Wildlife Conservation Officer
Occupational stress exists in all jobs. Wildlife conservation officers are, by nature of their jobs, subjected to job-related stressors. In order to better understand occupational stress, it is necessary to identify those events that occur in the professional lives, or as a result of the professional lives, of conservation officers. In response to this, all 160 conservation agents of the Missouri Department of Conservation were questioned by 2 separate mail surveys. These questionnaires allowed Missouri's wildlife officers to tell what was stressfUl to them in their jobs and evaluate these...
