Depression, Anxiety and Stress among Civil Police Officers in Kerala

By : Leena S T, S. Jude

Page No: 213-225

Abstract
The present investigation is carried out to understand the level of depression, anxiety and stress among civil police officers in Trivandrum district, Kerala. The study includes police officers from both genders (N=120) within the age range of 30 to 50 years. The sample was drawn using the purposive sampling technique. Descriptive research design was used as the research design. Personal data schedule and DASS-21 (Lovibond & Lovibond, 1995) were used as the assessment instruments in the present study. Statistical tests such as Frequency analysis and spearman’s correlation were used to analyze the data statistically. This study also intends to identify the relationship between the depression, anxiety and stress among civil police officers. The results showed that significant number of police officers in Kerala suffer on depression, anxiety and stress.

Authors :
S Jude : MSc student – Department of Counselling Psychology, Loyola college of social sciences, Sreekaryam, Trivandrum.
S T, Leena :  Faculty – Department of Counselling psychology, Loyola college of social sciences, Sreekaryam, Akkulam Road, Trivandrum 695 017, Kerala
 

DOI: https://doi.org/10.32381/JPR.2020.15.01.18