Occupational Stress of Women Police

A study on occupational stress of women police was carried out in the year 2014-15 in Dharwad taluk, Karnataka state with the objectives to assess the occupational stress of women police and to know the relation between selected demographic variables with occupational stress of police. A total of 60 police belonging to 21-60 years age group were randomly selected from 22 police stations of Dharwad taluk. The occupational stress was assessed using occupational stress scale developed by Srivastav and Sing (1984) socio economic status was assessed using socio-economic status scale developed by Agarwal et al. (2005) and self structured questionnaire were used to collect information. The data was collected through questionnaire method along with personal interview of the respondents. The results revealed that 60.00 per cent of women police had moderate level of occupational stress while 36.67 per cent had high and only 3.33 per cent had low level. Occupational stress was significantly and positive related to duty period and distance from residence pointing out that higher the duty period and greater the distance from residence higher was the occupational stress. There was significant and negative relationship between family size and occupational stress indicating that increase in family size decreased the stress. There was no significant relationship between age, education, marital status, work experience, opinion about work, socio economic status and occupational stress.