A Study on Stress Coping Skills General Well Being and Outcome Amongst Prison Personnel
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K.V.REDDY
President
All India Prison Officers Association
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A study of stress, coping skills, general well
being and job outcome amongst Prison personnel
Objectives
To explore the extent of prison specific stress and burnout stress syndrome amongstthe prison personnel.
To study the differences in the extent of prison specific stress and burnout stresssyndrome and well being among prison personnel at different levels of prison
organizational hierarchy.
To identify the specific stressors amongst prison personnel. To study the coping strategies prevalent among personnel working at different levels
or organizational hierarchy.
To study the relationship among stress, burnout, coping and general well-being. To study the inter-correlation between all the above. To study the relationship of prison specific stress, burnout, general well-being with job
performance in prison personnel.
Findings
The prison officers included in the present study experienced significant amount ofstress, but low and average burnout and a small percentage in high burnout category.
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The perception of prison personnel that their family is being neglected, job boredom
work load, noxious physical environment, role ambiguity and role conflict are the
stressors found positively related with prison specific stress, while procedural justice,
decision latitude and distributive justice are negatively related with prison specific
stress.
Gazette officers (Gr.III) uses active cognitive coping significantly more than the non-Gazetted officers (Gr.II and subordinate (Gr.I)
The gazette officer (Gr.III) uses active cognitive coping significantly more than thesubordinates.
Prison stress, three components of burnout, and use of coping strategies aresignificant and positively related.
Job outcome and well-being are found to be negatively related with prison stress. Multiple regression reveals that prison specific stress, active cognitive coping, decision
latitude and general well being emerged as a significant predictors of job outcome.
Job outcome, life satisfaction, decision latitude, emotional exhaustion, reducedpersonnel accomplishment and general well-being and praise are found to be the
significant predictors of prison specific stress.
Recommendations
A data be established and nationally representative norms can be prepared. The coping strategies used by those officers who are successfully managing coping
stress can be identified and made part of the training.
Objective job outcome measure should also be prepared, self-reported job outcomeshould also be cross-checked from their office records and ACR and in-depth interview
also be conducted to measures the job outcome.
Future studies should take well being as the end variable and the causal analysis usingthe path-analysis be done to investigate the role of stress, coping job outcome.
