Page No.29-39
Randhir Singh Ranta and Anup Sud
Himachal Pradesh University, Shimla
.
Police personnel as an occupation group endure particularly high levels of stress
and burnout. The physiological, psychological and behavioural effects of stress
and burnout in police can be severe which is a matter of great concern. The
manifestation of stress and burnout in the form, of suicide and killings highlight
the urgent need that these must be tackled. There are hundreds of exercises and
techniques available to manage stress and burnout of the type experienced by
police personnel. But not much effort has been made to enable the police personnel
to deal with these problems. In the present study a multidimensional intervention
was given to the volunteers from different ranks of police personnel (e.g.
constables, head constables, assistant sub inspectors and inspectors). The control
group was only exposed to physical relaxation training. Further, to assess the
efficacy of these interventions, scores on all the dependent variables, taken prior
to and after the intervention, have been compared. Repeated measure analysis
of variance was applied. However, because of the lack of availability of this sample
in future follow-up score have not been taken. RPMANOVA revealed the efficacy
of multidimensional intervention in reducing job stress, emotional exhaustion and
depersonalization score from pre to post assessment trials, regardless of the
ranks of police personnel. All these findings have been interpreted and suggestions
for future research have also been put forth
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