Factors affecting social support and resilience on police officer

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Introduction: According to survey the highest priority job with most stress on or off duty is the for the security and that is for the police officers. Since the police organization has clear hierarchical order between rigid command lines, conflict of opinions between bosses and co-workers, harassment of senior executives, and pressure for promotion can be factors of work-related stress. Objective: The purpose of this study was to provide basic data on mental health by identifying factors affecting the resilience of police officer. Method: With the consent of the Subject the data collection was done from October 1 to November 30, 2019. 150 participants were included in the final analysis. The demographic characteristics, resilience, and social support were considered in the ques-tionnaire. The descriptive statistics, t-test, ANOVA, Pearson’s correlation and multiple regression using SPSS 21.0 statistical program were used for analysis of the collected data. Results: The results of this study showed that the difference in resilience, according to general characteristics as gender, place of psychological distress and gender, age, position, working department, total work experience and subjective health state in social support. Resilience showed a static positive correlation with social support, emotional support, informative support, material support, evaluation support. Conclusion: Based on the above results, regression analysis showed that factors affecting resilience were gender, material support and emotional support the factors used in the analysis explained 30.5% of resilience. © IJCRR.

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