Indian Journal of Health and Wellbeing

Mahesh Kumar Maurya ¹, Manisha Agarwal ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Psychology, F.S.S., BHU, Varanasi, U.P., IN

Abstract

Police psychology is primarily interested in the analysis of behavior of policemen. Anger is a characteristic of behavior and police have to be aggressive and angry due the nature of their job and work. The purpose of the study was to compare the anger between PAC and Civil Police in Uttar Pradesh in India. Thirty two (32) PAC and thirty two (32) Civil Police constables were selected as participants of this study. The age range of the participants was 24-59 years. The anger was measured by a Hindi version of Spielberger's (1999) anger scale. Results showed that there was significant difference between PAC and Civil Police with regard to anger. Results also show that PAC personnel had higher levels of anger as compared to Civil Police. Police anger and aggression can be used against criminal, terrorists and wrong doers and it can be used as a manipulation strategy for social influence by police.

Keywords

Anger,uttar Pradesh,india,provincial Armed Constabulary,civil Police

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Mahesh Kumar Maurya ¹, Manisha Agarwal ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Psychology, F.S.S., BHU, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, IN

Abstract

The present study was conducted with the objective of examining the nature of the relationship between interpersonal trust and mental health dimensions with the job satisfaction of police constables among the PAC, civil police and the traffic police. The study was conducted on a total sample of 103 constables working in these three cadres. The data have been collected on the police organization in the state of Uttar Pradesh in India. The survey was conducted by administering questionnaires to the police personnel and their responses were obtained on five-point scales. Statistical analysis of the data was done through one-way ANOVA showed significant differences in the factor ability and also on the demographic variable age and experience. Results showed no significant differences between the three groups on the variable salary, and also on the factors benevolence, integrity as well as psychological wellbeing, psychological distress and job satisfaction. Correlation analysis showed that job satisfaction was significantly, positively related with the age, experience, salary, ability, benevolence, integrity, psychological wellbeing and negatively with psychological distress in PAC. Among civil police, job satisfaction was significantly, positively related with integrity and psychological wellbeing. Regression analysis clearly highlighted that age is a significant predictor of job satisfaction in PAC, benevolence is significant predictor of job satisfaction among the PAC and integrity is a significant predictor of job satisfaction in civil police. The finding also revealed that psychological wellbeing is significant predictor of job satisfaction in PAC and civil police constable. Findings have important implications for building a committed and satisfied police workforce in our country.

Keywords

Interpersonal Trust, Psychological Wellbeing, Psychological Distress, Job Satisfaction.

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Mahesh Kumar Maurya ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Psychology, F.S.S. BHU, Varanasi, UP, IN

Abstract

Police Psychology is also concerned whh behavior understanding, explaining and ever predicting. Police Psychology is primarily interested in the analysis of behavior of policemen. The purpose of the study is to see the effect of Perceived workplace harassment on mental health status and job satisfaction among PAC, Civil Police and Traffic Police. Participants were 103 police constables from the police services in Uttar Pradesh. Among these, 39 participants were Provincial Armed Constabulary (PAC), 41 participants were civil police employees and 23 participants were Traffic Police. The measure of perceived workplace harassment is developed by Berdahl and Moore (2006). Among the mental health status dimensions, well-being was assessed on the dimensions of psychological distress (PD) and psychological wellbeing (PWB) (Heubeck & Neill, 2000). Job satisfaction was measured by 22 item scale adapted from the scale reported by Dantzker (1993). Three items were used for getting information about the participants' age, salary and number of years served in the police force. Results showed that among the demographic variables, there was no significant difference between the three groups with regard to salary, there were significant differences in the age and experience of the constables in the three types of police organizations. Results clearly indicated that ethnic harassment was significantly different among the three types of police constables. However, not-man-enough harassment, psychological wellbeing, psychological distress andjob satisfaction were not significantly different among the three types of police constables. The findings from the study have clearly highlighted not-man-enough harassment and ethnic harassment has not significant predictors of job satisfaction among PAC, Civil Policeand Traffic Police.

Keywords

Perceived Workplace Harassment Dimensions, Mental Health Status, Job Satisfaction, Police.

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