Effects of Emotional Intelligence and Self-efficacy Training on Work Stress of Junior Police Officers in Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria
Keywords:
Self-efficacy, Age, Gender, Emotional intelligence, Police officers, Work stressAbstract
This study investigated the effect of emotional intelligence and self-efficacy training on work stress of junior police officers in Ibadan, Nigeria. The study adopted a pretest-posttest, control group Quasi-experimental design. Simple random sampling technique was used to select 60 participants from three police divisional command in Ibadan. The participants were randomly assigned to treatment and control groups. The two treatment groups were exposed to eightweek training in emotional intelligence and self-efficacy training, while participants in the control group received no training. One validated instrument: The Police Stress Inventory (PSI) was used and four hypotheses were tested at 0.05 level of significance. Data were analysed using Analysis of Covariance and MCA. The results of the study revealed that there was significant main effect of treatment on junior police officers ability to manage work stress. Also, the findings indicated that Emotional Intelligence and Self-Efficacy Training were effective in the management of work stress among junior police officers. However, the results further revealed that there was no significant difference in the main effect of age between (younger and older); gender (male and female) on the work stress of junior police officers participants. Likewise, the three way interaction effect of treatment with age and gender was not significant. Therefore, police authorities should adopt the two interventions as to effectively manage the reoccurring issue of work stress that is negatively impacting on the professional competence of police officers in Nigeria.
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