Compairing ways of coping strategies with police job stress and some variables

iiABSTRACTCOMPAIRING WAYS OF COPING STRATEGIES WITH POLICE JOBSTRESS AND SOME VARIABLESsmail ÇAKIRMA Thesis, Department of Educational SciencesSupervisor: Yrd. Doç. Dr. Sabahattin ÇAMFebruary 2006, 130 PagesThis study was designed to compare the coping strategies with the police jobstress and some variables. Sample of the study contains 98 officers with rank and 681police officers totally 779 officers.Polices job stress were measured by Stress Questionnaire?s Job andSchool Stress sub-questionnaire, and coping strategies by Ways of CopingInventory. The data was analysed with Analyses of Varyans and LSD testtecniques.Results indicated that there were mean differences between the Helplessstyle and Seeking of social support scores of participants who has high and lowpolice stress level. There were significant mean differences for all the copingways except social support in terms of unit, however no diffrerence in terms ofrank were found except Helpless style. Gender differences were found in thescores of optimistic, helpless, submissive and seeking of social support styles.There were also significant mean differences in the scores of helpless,submissive and seeking social support styles in terms of working system ofpolice.In addition there were significant mean differences in self-confident style interms of the job stress and unit interaction and in helpless styles in terms of the jobstress and rank interaction. The job stress and working system interaction was alsosignificant for seeking social support scores.Key Words: Police, Job Stress, Coping Strategies