Burnout and Occupational Stress among Police Personnel

Abstract

The aim of present research was to audit the level of occupational stress and burnout among the police personnel and to check the relationship between occupational stress and burnout. A total number of 120 (one hundred twenty) police personnel from Ranchi district were included as a sample. Purposive cum incidental sampling technique was used for the sample selection. t test was applied to see the significant of difference between samples sub groups. Product moment correlation was applied to see the significant relation between both variable namely occupational stress and burnout. The result of the study revealed that both variables positively and significantly correlated with each other. Further the results are discussed.