Wisamon Srisuttinan
Burapha University, Thailand
Title: The coping of the police officers under police provincial region 5
Biography
Biography: Wisamon Srisuttinan
Abstract
The aims of the research was to study the coping of police officers under the provincial police region 5, through 8 strategies, such as, problem solving, adjustment of thought, emotional expression, social support, problem avoidance, desire to be, self-criticism and social avoidance. The questionnaire was used to collect data from 228 samples, including the police commanders and the police officers of the provincial police region 5. The data was analyzed using descriptive statistics such as, frequency, percentage, mean and standard deviation. The hypotheses were test was done by the statistic One-way ANOVA. The finding can be concluded that, majority of the respondents were married and worked in the crime prevention and suppression department. Problem solving strategy was mostly used by them followed by the strategies, adjustment of thought and social support, respectively. The hypothesis test revealed that the police officers with different marital status and work departments used different coping strategies.