Occupational Stress and Work Life Balance among Married Women Police
Journal Title: International Journal of Research in Social Sciences - Year 2018, Vol 8, Issue 1
Abstract
Police work is normally considered to be a stressful occupation. In particular women police are perform challenging and extremely stressful jobs. High level of stress leads to imbalances in the family life and work life of women police. Therefore, the study attempted in identifying the Level of Occupational Stress and Work Life Balance among married women police personnel. The researcher adopted descriptive research design for the study. Simple random sampling technique was used to select a sample of 226 respondents. The research was based on the structured survey through a questionnaire, with married women police who works in Coimbatore District. Data were subjected to descriptive statistics. The findings revealed that married women police have moderate level of occupational stress and work life balance. Women police do differ with regard to age, experience, income, working hours, number of children, receiving help from husband and (a) occupational stress and (b) work life balance. Correlation result shows that women police decrease in level of occupational stress there is increase in the level of work life balance. Age, income, number of children and total number of working hours per day are the strong predictors of work life balance among married women police.
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Dr. N. Shanmughavadivu And Dr. A. Sethuramasubbiah
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