Investigation of the relationship between the conscious awareness and the coping with stress of the police officers by various variables

The aim of this study is to determine the relationship between the conscious awareness of police officers and coping with stress in terms of demographic, social and professional variables. The population of the study consisted of 202 data were obtained with the appropriate sample of the police officers working in Sakarya Provincial Security Directorate. The data were applied to the participants face-to-face with the information form and final analysis was performed on 196 available data. Demographic Information Form, Mindful Attention Awareness Scale (Özyeşil, Deniz and Arslan, 2011) and Coping Response Inventory (Ballı, Kılıç, 2016) were applied to the police officers who participated in the study. For the analysis, total scores of the scales and normality tests were performed for each of the variables, and the skewness and kurtosis coefficients of Kolmogorow-Smirnov test were examined. Analysis results show that the data shows normal distribution. Correlation analysis (pearson coefficient), t test for unrelated samples from parametric tests, One Way ANOVA and Kruskal Wallis H test were used in cases where the number of variables were less than 30 because the data showed normal distribution. As a result of the correlation analysis, it was found that there was a low-level relationship between mindful attention awareness and coping response. When mindful attention awareness and coping response are examined individually, there is a significant relationship only between the police officers' free time activities and their mindful attention awareness, and the police officers who prefer to spend time with their friends are significantly higher than the mindful attention awareness levels of the police officers who prefer to spend time in other ways. No significant difference was found in terms of other comparisons. Keywords: Mindful attention awareness, Coping response with stress, Police profession