Stress on Work Life Balance and Coping Strategies in Police Personnel

Abstract

Police work is often considered to be a highly stressful profession. Not only are police personnel frequently showing to the most violent, antisocial, and mistrustful elements of society, they are also expected to exercise prudence under critical circumstances. The experience of occupational stress has long been implicated in the development of negative outcome for the individual employee and the employing organization. In spite of the over abundance of literature on the general relationship between police work and job-related stress, there is a scarceness of empirical evidence pertaining tothe study of relationship between stress, work-life balance andcoping strategies and how stress, work-life balance, coping strategies predict job. The present research aims at investigating whetherstress, work-life balance, and coping strategies in police personnel.The data collected with the help ofthe actions for different variables were subjected to two types of analysis, namely, analysis of variance and stepwise multiple regression analysis. For the purpose of the former type of study, the demographic variables were categorized into groups. Work-Life balance, Operational Stress, and Destructive Coping strategies among police personnel. For the male police personnel Work-Life balance, Operational Stress, and Constructive coping significantly. Organizational Stress significantlypredicted Job Satisfaction among female police personnel. Results of ANOVA were in significant for all the variables except the result of sex on organizational stress and experience category on operational stress. This study has implication for managing stress in police personnel.