“Occupational Stress Among Male And Female Police of ficers Engaged in Traffic Duty”
Journal Title: International Journal of Humanities and Social Science Invention - Year 2018, Vol 6, Issue 12
Abstract
Stress has a wide impact on all professional settings. Policing is a more stressful job and majority of the police officers face high level of stress because of their occupational background. Traffic police officers, both male and female face stress in different level. Traffic police are the guardians of public to control the flow of vehicles and create a good environment to people. The main objective of this study is to understand the level of stress among male and female traffic police officers and find the causes of stress and provide appropriate strategies to reduce the stress level. The „purposive sampling method‟ is used to collect the data and the researcher prepared a self-made questionnaire consisting of 45 questions and collected data from 60 respondents (30 male and 30 female).Target group of the study was male and female police officers engaged in traffic duty in Trivandrum district of Kerala State. The findings show that, the female police officers face high level of stress than male officers and they are mostly facing physical, occupational, psychological and cognitive stress. In the case of male police officers they face moderate level of stress, but in the case of occupational stress both male and female officers face same range of stress. Researcher also advised coping strategies for those respondents like proper diet and sleep, making the duty time more happy through funny talk and the provide appropriate counselling session for them and their family to cope up with stressful situation
Authors and Affiliations
VS Kochukrishna Kurup, Shani Lasar, Nisanth M
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