April - June 2010 - Bureau of Police Research and Development

A Study of Burnout and Marital Adjustment of Police PersonnelMaslach BurnoutInventory (MBI) hasbeen used to measureburnout as theindependent variableand Mishra's MaritalAdjustment Scale(MAS) has been tomeasure maritaladjustment asdependent variable.Person r was used totest the hypotheses.Fulfillment of expectations: It shows maximum selffulfillmentfor both partners in terms of feeling ofsafety, needs, admiration and respect, honesty,responsiveness, and cooperation.Data CollectionThe aim of the present study is to assess therelationship and significant difference betweenburnout and marital adjustment of police personnelon the basis of ranks and gender. The scales weredistributed to the subjects separately and wereassured that their information would be keptconfidential.Data AnalysisThe data was analyzed on the basis of correlationand t-test with the SPSS 16.0 version.ResultsThe purpose of the study is to assess the correlationand significant difference between burnout andmarital adjustment of police personnel on the basisof ranks and gender.Table 1 represents the significant negativecorrelation between burnout and marital adjustmentwith the calculated r-values as -.25** (p.05) while similarity in thinking,tension and conflicts, fulfillment of expectations andsexual relationships also have negative correlationwith the calculated r values as -.27**, -.28**, -.33**, -.34** (p>.01). Thus, the H2 has beenaccepted at .05/.01 levels.Table 1 also shows that depersonalization hassignificant negative correlation with accommodation,mutual consideration and respect for in-laws,liking each other and personal habits,communication, mutual trust with the calculatedr values as -.12, -.05, -.22*, -.12 (p>.05) Whilesimilarity in thinking, tension and conflicts, sexualrelationships and fulfillment of expectations havealso negative correlation with the calculated r valuesas -.23**, -.29**, -.23**, -.28** (p.05), .21*, .22* (p.05), -.25**(p