Relationship between Hardiness and Professional Quality Of Life among Operational Duty Police Personnel: Role of Resilience and Service Tenure

Abstract

The current study was aimed to investigate the relationship between hardiness and ProQOL (Professional quality of life) and moderating role of resilience and service tenure among operational duty police personnel. Total sample was 250 police personnel. It was hypothesized that hardiness, resilience and service tenure are significantly correlated with ProQOL. Second hypothesis was that hardiness, resilience and service tenure significantly predicts ProQOL. Hypothesized that resilience and service tenure significantly play moderating role. It was also hypothesized that there are significant differences based on different demographics on the level of ProQOL. Hardiness was assessed by PVS III-R (Jamal, 2017), Resilience was assessed by RS-14 (Shezad, 2014) and Professional quality of life was measured by ProQOL Scale version-5(Stamm, 2010) translated into Urdu. Correlation analysis showed significant relationship between study variables. Regression analysis showed that hardiness, resilience and service tenure positively predict compassion satisfaction and negatively predicts compassion fatigue. Moderation analysis revealed that resilience negatively moderates between hardiness and secondary trauma. Service tenure negatively moderates between hardiness and compassion satisfaction and positively moderates with burnout. T-test and ANOVA analysis showed significant mean differences based on different demographics. Current study will be very useful for law enforcement organizations to devise intervention programs which will help to enhance ProQOL by promoting positive characteristics such as resilience and hardiness. It will help law enforcement organization to identify and eliminate those factors which are negatively affecting ProQOL of police personnel and which leads to negative consequences such as burnout, secondary trauma and low job satisfaction.