Abstract
Purpose:
 Police officers are vulnerable to experience work stress, whatever the field or function they perform. Stress is police is complex given the multitude of factors that can result in stress for the police personnel. Literature has identified several different stressors for the police. The purpose of this study is to determine the factors that influence work stress on police officers.
 Methodology:
 It is a quantitative study wherein sing a sample for 402 police personnel from the Ahmednagar and Jalnadistrict of Maharashtra, the key stressors for the police personnel were examined. Respondents were given the modified Police Stress Survey (PSS). Stressors for police were identified by doing factor analysis. These factors and their explanations are then delved into to appreciate the context of the work.
 Findings:
 After a factor analysis was done it was found that four key categories of stressors that are relevant for the sample are Factor1 with 9 items were measuring organisational Characteristics with variance of 26.49%, Factor 2 with 8 items measuring nature of work in police department with variance of 18.39%, Factor 3 with 3 items measuring public dealing of police while on job with variance of 8.32% and Factor 4 with 3 items measuring personal characteristics of police with variance of 7.82%.
 Research Limitations:
 The factor analysis is done using Police Stress Survey, if any other stress scale is used, finds may differ and other factors may uncover.
 Originality/ Value:
 There is dearth of studies on Police. Since this study is on stress with specific reference to Police, it has added to limited literature/ research that is available on Indian Police.
Highlights
Stress can be understood as a state that result after an assessment of the perceived difference between the demands placed by the job that a person is involved with and the persons ability to meet the demands of the job (Bakker et al, 2004)
Table-1 indicate that the bartlett test of Sphericity and Kaiser-Meyer- Olkin(KMO) measure sample adequacy, the KMO value is 0.878, which is higher than expected value 0.6 (Kaiser,1974) and Bartlett’s test of sphericity was significant (P
In a sense police stress with complex in its structure and there are a number of different factors that contribute differentially to the stress experienced by police personnel
Summary
Stress can be understood as a state that result after an assessment of the perceived difference between the demands placed by the job that a person is involved with and the persons ability to meet the demands of the job (Bakker et al, 2004). Research has established that the police profession is extremely stress prone (Ranta, 2009). Police experience stress that comes from physical, psychological, social, economicand political sources (Ashifa, 2019). The police experience stress weather in the field or off the field on account of their function in society. Police stress may be triggered by several different factors some of which may be work related, task related, family related or financial factors(Violanti et al, 2017). Researchers have shown that individuals who work the night shift have a tendency to experience higher work stress those who work the day shift(Violanti et al, 2017). From the family perspective police personnel are judged harshly on account of their lack of timefor the family (Kumar 2017). Members often believe that police personnel are not able to find the time for family activities
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