Co-Relation Study of Organisational Police Stress and Functional Coping Strategy Among Police Personnel

Abstract

The Aim of the study is to find out the relationship between organisational police stress and functional coping strategy among the police personnel.  This study is utilized descriptive research procedure.   The variable of the study are organisational police stress and functional coping strategy among the police personnel, the target population is employee who are all working in police department at   Nagapattinam, Mayiladuthurai, Thiruvarur and Thanjavur district, Tamilnadu, India.   A sample size of 365 police personnel has been selected through convenient sampling method.  The degree of police organisational stress is measured using twenty statements Mc Creary and Thompson (2006) tools is considered for meaning of organisational police stress.  organisational police stress consists of twenty statements. is classified three dimension namely, lack of man power, lack of infrastructure and anxiety due to officials Carver (1989) tool is considered for meaning of functional coping strategies. This scale comprises three statements, measured by the in the five point scale. The respondents are to respond the scale as rated as 5-stongly agree, 4-agree, 3-neutral. 2-disagree, 1-strongly disagree. To find the answer to the hypothesis, descriptive, correlation and multiple regression applied.  It is found that police organisational stress having positive relationship with functional coping strategy.