The convergent and divergent impact of work environment, work-family conflict, and stress coping mechanisms on female and male police officers

Pages: 19-24
Manpreet Ola and Roopa Mathur (Department of Psychology, The IIS University, Jaipur, Rajasthan)

The aim of the present study was to investigate the convergent and divergent impact of work environment, work-family conflict, and stress coping mechanisms of female and male police officers. The major aims of the study were to compare male and female police officers on levels of psychological and physical stress, impact of work environment, work family conflict and stress coping mechanisms, to study the relationship between work environment and levels of psychological and physical stress, to study the relationship between work family conflict and levels of psychological and physical stress and to study the relationship between stress coping mechanisms and levels of psychological and physical stress. It was hypothesized that there will be no significant difference between male and female police officers on stress, stress coping mechanisms, impact of work environment and work-family conflict. It was further posited that all the measures of independent variable would not be significantly correlated to the measures of dependent variable. The sample of the study consisted of thirty five male and thirty five female officers who were selected on the basis of certain criteria of inclusion and exclusion. The design of the study was a two group design where the independent variables were work environment, work-family conflict and stress coping mechanism and the dependent variable was stress.