Effect of occupational stress on family relationship among police personnel of rural and urban areas of Uttarakhand
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2015-06
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G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar - 263145 (Uttarakhand)
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Occupations are a part of everyday life and may even form a part of a person's existence. Occupational stresses have become predominant feature of modern life and it is common to each and every organization. The police organization is no exception to this rather policing is widely recognized as more stressful than any other occupation the nature of work, irregular duty hours and many more factors, which can trigger stress in police personnel. Stress may affect the personnel and professional life of police personnel. Therefore it was felt to study the occupational stress and its relationship with family. The purpose of the study was to identify the effect of occupational stress on police personnel family relation including marital satisfaction and family environment. The study was conducted in the state of Uttarakhand and two districts were selected for this purpose Udham Singh Nagar for urban sector and Pithoragarh for rural sector. From these districts two block were selected, Rudrapur from Udham Singh Nagar and Pithoragarh from Pithoragarh district. Total 140 Police personnel (70 from Rudrapur & 70 from Pithoragarh) were interviewed for this study. Independent variable selected for the study were age, family type, family size, year of job experience and no. of transfer, whereas dependent variable were occupational stress, family environment and marital satisfaction. The data were collected using structured questionnaire for background information, family environment and marital satisfaction and occupational stress index (OSS) by A.K. Srivastav & A.P. Singh (1984). The data obtained was analyzed using frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, t- test, and Chi-square test. The present study revealed that male police personnel had significantly high occupational stress than female police personnel and rural male police personnel had significantly high positive family environment than rural female police personnel whereas urban police personnel had no significant differences in family environment across their gender. Another observation was that male and female police personnel had no significant difference in marital satisfaction. As per the percentage basis, rural sector police personnel had moderate occupational stress, high family environment and high marital satisfaction than urban sector police personnel. Findings also revealed that family environment was not dependent on occupational stress whereas marital satisfaction was depended on occupational stress. The study showed that the police personnel from rural sector were having better family relationship than urban sector police personnel.
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