Journal of Psychology & Psychotherapy
Open Access

The coping of the police officers under police provincial region 5

2^nd International Conference on Clinical and Counseling Psychology

OCTOBER 16-17, 2017 OSAKA, JAPAN

Wisamon Srisuttinan, Surin Sutthithatip, Rapin Chayvimol and Doldao Purananon

Burapha University, Thailand

Scientific Tracks Abstracts: J Psychol Psychother

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.

Biography :

Wisamon Srisuttinan is currently a Doctoral student at Faculty of Education Psychology of Counseling, Burapha University, Thailand. She undertook practical training on student care techniques and in in psychotherapy, thought and thought for depression (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Depression).