Resilience and self-concept among police officers in Pune city

Pages:250-254
Gauri Kadam and Yogita Ubhe (Department of Psychology, Pad Dr. D. Y. Patil ACS College, Pimpri, Pune)

The study was aimed at studying resilience and self concept among police officers in Pune City. A sample of 84 Police Officers (46 Males and 38 Females) with ranks of Police Inspector, Assistant Police Inspector and Police Sub Inspector who were selected by purposive sampling method. Their age range was 24 years to 58 years. One group consisted of senior police officers with more than 20 years of service. While the other group consisted of police officers with upto 10 years of service. These officers were drawn from various police stations in Pune city, Maharashtra. They responded to the Resilience Scale by Wagnild & Young (1987) and Self concept Questionnaire by Saraswat (1999). Statistical tool Anova was used to find differences on resilience and self concept among police officers.The results showed that there was no difference found on resilience (F=0.02), physical self concept (F=3.27), social self concept (F=3.64), temperamental self concept (F=0.24), moral self concept (F=2.44) and intellectual self concept (F=0.38) among police officers with more than 20 years of service and police officers with upto 10 years of service. The results also showed that there was no gender difference found on resilience (F=3.40) among police officers. There was significant gender difference found on physical self concept (F=8.18), social self concept (F=5.88) and intellectual self concept (F=4.95) among police officers at 0.05 level of significance. Whereas there was no gender difference found on temperamental self concept (F=0.02) and moral self concept (F=1.26) among police officers.