Co-Relation Study Of Operational Police Stress And Submissive Coping Strategy Among Police Personnel

Abstract

The study aims to find out the relationship between operational police stress and submissive coping strategy among the police personnel.  This study is utilized descriptive research procedure.   The variables of the study are operational police stress and coping strategies among the police personnel, the target population is employees who are all working in the police department at Nagapattinam district, Tamilnadu, India.   A sample size of 250 police personnel has been selected through convenient sampling method.  The degree of police operational stress is measured using twenty statements. McCreary and Thompson's (2006) tools is considered for the meaning of operational police stress.  Operational police stress consists of twenty statements. is classified into three dimensions, namely time stress, emergency stress and social-related stress. Carver (1989) tool is considered for meaning of submissive coping. This scale comprises six statements, measured on a five-point scale. The respondents are to respond the scale as rated as 5-stongly agree, 4-agree, 3-neutral. 2-disagree, 1-strongly disagree. Descriptive, correlation and multiple regression were applied to find the answer to the hypothesis.  It is found that police operational stress having a positive relationship with submissive coping strategy.

Operational police stress, Submissive coping strategies, Police personnel.