Emotional Intelligence and Occupational Stress of Rural and Urban Police

Journal Title: RA Journal Of Applied Research - Year 2016, Vol 2, Issue 6

Abstract

The emotional intelligence and occupational stress of rural and urban police studied on 120 police constables who were randomly selected from 22 police stations of Dharwadtaluk. Emotional intelligence questionnaire developed by Dulewicz and Higgs, 2001, occupational stress scale by Srivastav and Sing, 1984, socio-economic status scale by Agarwal et al., 2005 and self structured questionnaire to collect auxiliary information were used for data collection. Results revealed that 50 per cent had average level of emotional intelligence while 4.2 percent had high and 45.8 per cent were in low levels. Majority (56.67%) of women had average level of emotional while 41.67 per cent had low and only 1.67 were in high level where as majority (50%) of men had low level of occupational stress indicating that increase in family size decreased the stress. Emotional intelligence and occupational stress were negatively related indicating higher the emotional intelligence lesser was the occupational stress.

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Daneshwari Onkari

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Daneshwari Onkari (2016). Emotional Intelligence and Occupational Stress of Rural and Urban Police. RA Journal Of Applied Research, 2(6), 473-482. https://europub.co.uk/articles/-A-210862