Structure of Different Dimensions of Organisational Role Stressors among Female Police Personnel of Haryana

Although numerous scientific books, articles, and monographs have been published attesting to the importance of stress, the conceptualization of stress remains controversial. Stress is a phenomenon that has quite different meanings for the politicians, social scientists, physician, nurse, psychotherapist, physiologist, molecular biologist and psychologist. In this context, there is an obvious need for an up-to-date compendium on one of the most important social, medical, and psychological phenomena of our age, which extends well beyond the general adaptation theory of Hans Selye and the fight-or-flight response of Walter Cannon. In the current study conducted on female police personnel (N= 400) of Haryana, the structure of most popular and extensively used Pareek's organisational role stress scale was examined. The factor analysis results cast doubt on the independent nature of the 10 indices of organisational role stress as revealed by the scale.