Occupational stress among police personnel in India

Ragesh, G; Tharayil, Harish M; Raj, Meharoof Tp; Philip, Mariamma; Hamza, Ameer

doi:10.5958/2394-2061.2017.00012.x

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“…Berg et al, Maran et al as well as Ragesh et al found that policewomen reported higher stress levels than their male colleagues. 4,8,9 As shown above, the current study showed perceived operational stress to be higher than organizational stress. This is contrary to the findings of Gershon et al as well as Brooks and Piquero who claimed administrative or organizational stress to be more than operational stress.…”

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confidence: 67%

“…The current study also demonstrated a very high prevalence of occupational stress-90 % reported operational stress (high stress by 70 % and moderate stress by 20%) and 80% reported organizational stress (both high stress and moderate stress by 40% each).This prevalence was higher when compared to that reported by Ragesh et al who demonstrated organizational stress to be 72% (moderate stress in 68% and high stress in 14%) prevalence of operational stress to be 83% (moderate stress in 67% and high stress in 16.5%). 4 This difference might be due to the fact that current study recruited only female police officers. Berg et al, Maran et al as well as Ragesh et al found that policewomen reported higher stress levels than their male colleagues.…”

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confidence: 94%

“…In a study conducted by Ragesh et al assessing the occupational stress among police personnel in India, it was found that 68% of the police personal experienced moderate organizational stress. 4 Using this data minimum sample required for the current study was calculated using the formula n= Zα 2 PQ/d 2 taking "d" as 13% which is less than 20% of P, n=50. Hence this study was conducted among 50 female police officers.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Occupational stress among female police officers in an urban setting in South Kerala

Vivek¹,

Varghese²,

Neethumol³

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Int J Community Med Public Health

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Background: Occupational stress is regarded as one of the major health hazards of modern workplace, with policing (law enforcement) being no exception. Women police officers are gradually increasing in numbers in the country and they are believed to experience more stress than their male counterpart. Hence this study was conducted with the objectives of estimating prevalence of occupational stress among female police personals in terms of operational and organizational stress and to identify the causes for these stress as perceived by them.Methods: A cross sectional study was conducted among 50 female police officers working in various police stations of Thiruvananthapuram city, selected by simple random sampling, during the period May 2018 to July 2018,using a pre tested semi structured questionnaire based on operational police stress questionnaire (PSQ-OP) and organizational police stress questionnaire (PSQ-ORG). The data was properly coded and entered in Microsoft excel and analyzed using SPSS version 16.0.Results: Mean age of the study population was 38.07 years (SD=5.714 years) and majority (64%) belonged to middle socioeconomic class. Perceived organizational and operational stress prevalence among the study population was as high as 80% (40 % experienced moderate stress and 40% experienced high stress) and 90% (high stress reported by 70 % and moderate stress by 20%) respectively. The most common stressor reported for organizational stress was staff shortage (74%) and that for operational stress was finding time to stay in good physical condition (76%).Conclusions: High prevalence of occupational stress calls for immediate attention from the officials.

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Occupational stress among female police officers in an urban setting in South Kerala

Vivek¹,

Varghese²,

Neethumol³

et al. 2018

Int J Community Med Public Health

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“…Consequently, a growing number of companies, scientific resources, as well as business educators and practitioners have started to devote attention to the employees' psychological health [13,14]. Furthermore, a significant number of studies has been developed over the last forty years in several occupations [9], e.g., community health-care [15], police officers [16], firefighters [17], teachers [18], manufacturing workers [13] and correctional officers [19] across different countries. Aimed at helping professionals to comprehend its causes, the key relationships with outcomes that are essential to employees as well as organizational functioning and strategies to mitigate its pervasiveness [9,14].…”

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Occupational Stress and Employees Complete Mental Health: A Cross-Cultural Empirical Study

Fortes

Tian

Huebner

2020

IJERPH

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Given the shortcomings of previous research on occupational stress and mental health (e.g., predominantly in Western, educated, industrialized, rich and democratic (WEIRD) societies, based on the traditional mental health model and a lack of comparative studies), this study aimed to (a) examine the relationship between occupational stress and complete mental health among employees in Cabo Verde and China, and also explored the mediation and moderation roles of burnout and optimism in accounting for the empirical link. Mental health was defined as comprised of two distinguishable factors: positive and negative mental health. The Pearson correlation test, structural equation modeling (SEM) analysis, bootstrap analysis, hierarchical moderated regression and an independent t-test were used to analyze the data. The results indicated that, in both countries, occupational stress showed a negative relation to positive mental health and lower psychopathology symptoms—and job burnout mediated the relation between occupational stress and mental health. Optimism moderated the relation between occupational stress and burnout, but not the relation between occupational stress and complete mental health. The results are interpreted in light of the comparative framework.

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“…In general, the police is responsible for maintaining law and order India jurisdiction and they are also interested with the responsibility of protecting the civil rights of the citizen and upholding the dignity of all the citizens Of India (Ragesh et al, 2017). The police is also responsible for implementation of general and special laws that fall within its purview.…”

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Factors Affecting Police Stress: A Study of Maharashtra Pol,2Dr. Surya Rashmi Rawat, ice

Mann¹

2021

TURCOMAT

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Purpose: Police officers are vulnerable to experience work stress, whatever the field or function they perform. Stress is police is complex given the multitude of factors that can result in stress for the police personnel. Literature has identified several different stressors for the police. The purpose of this study is to determine the factors that influence work stress on police officers. Methodology: It is a quantitative study wherein sing a sample for 402 police personnel from the Ahmednagar and Jalnadistrict of Maharashtra, the key stressors for the police personnel were examined. Respondents were given the modified Police Stress Survey (PSS). Stressors for police were identified by doing factor analysis. These factors and their explanations are then delved into to appreciate the context of the work. Findings: After a factor analysis was done it was found that four key categories of stressors that are relevant for the sample are Factor1 with 9 items were measuring organisational Characteristics with variance of 26.49%, Factor 2 with 8 items measuring nature of work in police department with variance of 18.39%, Factor 3 with 3 items measuring public dealing of police while on job with variance of 8.32% and Factor 4 with 3 items measuring personal characteristics of police with variance of 7.82%. Research Limitations: The factor analysis is done using Police Stress Survey, if any other stress scale is used, finds may differ and other factors may uncover. Originality/ Value: There is dearth of studies on Police. Since this study is on stress with specific reference to Police, it has added to limited literature/ research that is available on Indian Police.

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Occupational stress among police personnel in India

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Occupational stress among female police officers in an urban setting in South Kerala

Occupational stress among female police officers in an urban setting in South Kerala

Occupational Stress and Employees Complete Mental Health: A Cross-Cultural Empirical Study

Factors Affecting Police Stress: A Study of Maharashtra Pol,2Dr. Surya Rashmi Rawat, ice

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