The effect of community police integrity, trust and performance on community happiness in the United Arab Emirates
The concept of community happiness is increasingly being researched on as more governments are implementing initiatives to help people in their pursuit of happiness. In the United Arab Emirates (UAE), the community police have been entrusted with a challenging task of contributing to community...
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2020
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| Online Access: | http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/956/1/24p%20TAREQ%20ALJUNAIBI.pdf http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/956/2/TAREQ%20ALJUNAIBI%20COPYRIGHT%20DECLARATION.pdf http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/956/3/TAREQ%20ALJUNAIBI%20WATERMARK.pdf |
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| Summary: | The concept of community happiness is increasingly being researched on as more
governments are implementing initiatives to help people in their pursuit of happiness.
In the United Arab Emirates (UAE), the community police have been entrusted with a
challenging task of contributing to community development. This study, which was
set in in Baniyas, Al Shamkhah district, examines the relationships between the
constructs, namely integrity, trust, and community happiness with performance as the
moderator in the context of the UAE. A mixed methods case study research design
was adopted, which was premised on a pragmatic approach. To answer the research
questions, qualitative interviews, descriptive statistics, and partial least squares
structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM) were used to estimate the complex
relationships between the constructs. Findings revealed that integrity and trust, vital
for successful community policing, had a significant relationship with community
happiness. Although performance did moderate the relationship between trust and
community happiness, it did not have any moderating effect on the relationship
between integrity and community happiness. In other words, trust is a predictor of
happiness, but it seems that performance strengthens this effect. This study provided
further support for the idea that due to the clarity and regularity offered by the
government’s happiness initiative, residents were very trustful of their police. The
results showed that the policy feedback theory (PFT), legitimacy theory and the
conceptual model presented in this study offer explanatory elements for community
happiness and policing and provided the explanation for the effect of integrity and trust
in the police on community happiness. Future research should consider the inclusion
of other constructs and variables, investigate community police officers’ perceptions
of community happiness, and measure the inter-relationship among constructs to
manipulate and strengthen the applicability of the theoretical model proposed in this
study. |
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