Stress among Police Officers in Singapore : associations with coping responses and subjective wellbeing.

• Main Author: Nisha Lakshmi Ganasekeran.
• Other Authors: Weining Chu Chang
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2010
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Psychology::Consciousness and cognition
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/38643
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This study examined stressors of 274 police officers and associations with coping responses, overall mental health and Asian Subjective Wellbeing (ASWB). Police stressors were identified using in-depth interviews and survey of a representative sample of the Singapore Police Force (N = 10). The main police stressors were Work, Public Expectations, Health, Sleep, Work-Life Integration and Personal stressors. Correlation analyses showed all stressors positively correlated with mental health problems, while only Health, Sleep and Personal stressors were positively correlated with ASWB; all stressors were positively correlated with Problem-Focused, Non-Problem-Focused and Religious-based coping; Problem-Focused coping was positively correlated with ASWB; Non-Problem-Focused coping was negatively correlated with ASWB and positively correlated with mental health problems; Religious-based coping was positively correlated with family ASWB.