Situational and Contextual Factors Influencing Occupational Stress of Nigeria Police in South-Western Nigeria: Implication for Personnel Management

This study examined the predictive ability of situational and contextual factors on the occupational stress in the Nigeria Police, south-western Nigeria. Descriptive research design of ex-post facto type was adopted. The participants comprise of 1728 officers of Nigeria Police randomly drawn from police formations in Zone 12 and 2 of South-West, Nigeria. Staff in Zone 12 and 2 police force were selected using purposive sampling technique. Data collected were analysis using correlation and multiple regression analysis. Results (r = 0.34, 0.13,0.23, 031, 0.32, 0.34. 0.40: P < 0.05) reveals that all considered variables of situational and contextual factors such as age, years of experience, educational qualification, self-efficacy, work motivation, emotional labour and psychological well-being significantly related to occupational stress management. The results from multiple regression (F-value = 94.12; p < 0.05) further indicates that situational and contextual factors made significant composite contribution to the prediction of occupational stress. The study concluded that the situational and contextual factors had joint and relative predictive abilities on the occupational stress of Nigeria Police in South-West, Nigeria. The study recommends that psychological clinics should be established across the formations of Nigerian Police and competent counselling psychologists should be employed so that the situational and contextual factors of Nigeria Police officers would be effectively managed.