A study on the perceive stress among police personnel at the workplace

This purpose of this study is to identify the relation between a perceive stress and the career and personal factors in a workforce environment. A perceive stress can be
measured as the level of anxiety, depressions, attitudes and emotional controls, where the level of stress in the workforce can be measured as task time, the load of the job,
family factors and financial matters. The survey method was used to collect primary data through the use of questionnaire to the police personnel attached at the Administrative Department of Royal Malaysia Police (RMP). 250 questionnaires were distributed and 120 questionnaires were successfully collected back. All the data was gathered from the respondents were analyzed using Statistical Package for Social Science 17.0 versions and using the descriptive and inferential statistics. The result of the study shows that there is a moderate correlation between personal factors especially financial factors with the perceive stress compared to other variables such as task time, job load and family factors.