| Abstract [eng] |
Viktorija Dubinovič. Perceived Safety and Stress Experience of Police Officers: Master’s thesis. Vilnius University. Faculty of Philosophy, Institute of Psychology. Vilnius, 2018. The aim of this thesis is to assess perceived safety and stress in police officers. 70 police officers from various cities in Lithuania took part in this study. Among them 45 male and 25 female. Mean age of participants was 35 years, while mean work experience amounted to 13 years. To evaluate perceived safety of police officers, Questionnaire of Perceived Safety was used. To measure experienced stress Stress Experience Questionnaire was used. Sociodemographic data was collected using questionnaire of demographic data. According to the results of the study, the following conclusions can be drawn. Firstly, police officers face internal as well as external stress sources. It was also discovered that not all police officers feel safe. Secondly, sources of stress that police officers experience are not only vocation specific, but also those, stemming from everyday day life. Main stressors include the ongoing police reforms and high responsibility related to work profile. Depending on the age, work experience and the place of residence, same stressful situations invoke different levels of stress. Safety is also perceived differently, depending on sex and the place of residence of the police officers. According to the results, female police officers feel less safe than their male counterparts. Meanwhile there were no significant differences regarding feeling of safety among police officers with varying levels of work experience and different age. The relationship between perceived safety and stress was discovered. Police officers, that experienced more stress also felt less safe. |
