Original Research Article
Year: 2019 | Month: May | Volume: 9 | Issue: 5 | Pages: 332-336
Emotional Intelligence and Job Satisfaction among Police Personnel
Lovely Sabarwal1, Priyanka Sharma2
1Department of Psychology, University of Jammu.
2Department of Life Long Learning, University of Jammu
Corresponding Author: Lovely Sabarwal
ABSTRACT
Police is considered as one of the most stressful occupations across the world. Terrorist attacks and encounters expose the police officers to emotions arousing situations, to handle the different situations and thus require most physical and mental ability to deal with the situations firmly and effectively. Emotional intelligence of police personnel is directly proportional to job satisfaction i.e. higher the emotional intelligence the employees will have higher job satisfaction. The present study investigated the relationship between emotional intelligence and Job satisfaction and gender differences in emotional intelligence of police personnel from Jammu division. ‘Purposive sampling’ technique was used for the collection of data. The total sample consisted of 100 constables (50 males and 50 females) with minimum 5 years of experience. t-test and correlation was used for the analysis of data. Results revealed that significant positive relationship was found between emotional intelligence and job satisfaction of police personnel. Males had higher emotional intelligence as compare to females and found significant gender differences in emotional intelligence among police personnel.
Key words: Constables, emotional intelligence, job satisfaction, police