Stress Under the Badge: Examining the Impact of Job Stressors on Police Job Satisfaction in District Sargodha, Punajb, Pakistan

Abstract

Job stress is a worldwide dilemma. The phenomenon is intensively studied across the world and across the occupations. This research was designed to study the level of job satisfaction and job stress among police official in district Sargodha. Furthermore, the determinants of job stress were also targeted. Police officials of district Sargodha made the population of the study. A sample of 122 police officials was selected conveniently from six police stations which were randomly selected. A questionnaire was developed by the researcher consisting of 50 restricted-response and one open ended question. The questionnaire was piloted on 50 police officials which did not include in the original sample. The reliability of the questionnaire was 0.796. The mean, SD, T-test, Correlation, regression, and one-way ANOVA testes were applied to analyzed the data by using SPSS. The study found that there was a considerable negative relationship between the level job stress and the job satisfaction of the police officials. Furthermore, the officials face job stress as they think that their control of the job is less than their job demands. They perceive that their rewards are less than their efforts and they lack desired resources to perform their duties. Radical changes are suggested to save police officials from job stress and resultantly lowered job satisfaction.