Streaming of Spillover between Work and Family Linkage with Psychological Well-being among Police Personnel

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Nalini Malhotra¹ and Manpreet Kaur² (Department of Psychology, Punjabi University, Patiala, Punjab¹ (Department of Psychology, (Faculty of Social Sciences), Punjabi University, Patiala, Punjab²)

Maintaining a balance between work and family, two essential aspects of human existence, has become a matter of concern in most work settings. Numerous stressful situations and traumatic experiences faced by police officers lead to intense emotional strain that may deteriorate their psychological well-being, and they may feel negative sentiments such as anxiety, anger, or depression. This tension between job and family relationship is of immediate concern due to the critical implications it has for the psychological well-being of the employees. In such situations, well-being is an important marker of good health and psychological functioning. It includes capacity to work through life effectively, in pursuit of concrete goals, and in fairly initiating mutually supportive social relationships. The study attempts an exploration into the various kinds the influence of work-family relationships on the mental health of police personnel. The study sample comprised 200 police personnel from Punjab, measured through some standardized instruments, namely The Psychological Well-Being Scale (PWBS) and the Work-Family Linkage Questionnaire (WFLQ). The findings indicated that psychological well-being was much more positively correlated with those factors of positive spillovers from home to work and positive spillovers from work to home, whereas psychological well-being was correlated negatively with the linking dimension of compensation for what is lacking at work in a significant manner. Step-wise regression analysis found all four dimensions contributed meaningfully, with 30.4% of the variance in psychological well-being being explained by these significant aspects: compensation of what is missing at work, positive spillover from work into home, and positive spillover from home into work. In contrast, the influence of negative spillover from work to home segmentation showed no statistically significant connection with psychological well-being. The study elaborates on the influence on well-being by dynamic spillover between the work and nonwork spheres and forecasts future research options.