Emotional regulation and occupational stress among law enforcement officers-an exploration

The topic of emotion regulation is now became one of the interested area of research, especially in psychology as it considered as the “hallmark of psychopathology”. Now a days the need of regulation of emotions getting more attention in organizational settings also because different emotions that exist in the workplace influence the employee and organizational behavior. Emotion regulation help individual to retain positive affect and that will be beneficial for organizational behavior and thereby in achievement. It has much importance in policing which is one of the most stressful occupation and they frequently need to face emotionally taxing situations. The aim of the current study is to explore the relationship of emotional regulation and occupational stress among police officers. The current study made use of simple random sampling in selecting 30 male police officers and 30 female police officers. Occupational stress inventory by Joseph, Jayan & Dharmangadan, 2004 and Difficulties in emotion regulation scale byGratz&Roemer, 2004 were used for measuring the variables. The result shows that the occupational stress and emotion regulation is correlated and occupational stress varies according to the level of difficulty in emotion regulation.