Conscientiousness as a moderator of the relationship between work family conflict and stress amongst South African Police Service (SAPS) members in Alice Police Station Eastern Cape, South Africa

Bazana, Sandiso William

Title: Conscientiousness as a moderator of the relationship between work family conflict and stress amongst South African Police Service (SAPS) members in Alice Police Station Eastern Cape, South Africa
Creator: Bazana, Sandiso William
Subject: Job stress -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
Subject: Work and family -- Psychological aspects
Subject: Neuroses -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
Subject: Police morale -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
Subject: Police -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
Subject: Conscience -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
Subject: Conscientiousness
Subject: Work Family Conflict
Subject: Stress
Subject: Police
Date Issued: 2012
Date: 2012
Type: Thesis
Type: Masters
Type: MCom (Industrial Psychology)
Identifier: vital:11551
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1007030
Identifier: Job stress -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
Identifier: Work and family -- Psychological aspects
Identifier: Neuroses -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
Identifier: Police morale -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
Identifier: Police -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
Identifier: Conscience -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
Identifier: Conscientiousness
Identifier: Work Family Conflict
Identifier: Stress
Identifier: Police
Description: The purpose of the study was to explore the relationship between WFC and stress with Conscientiousness which is part of the Big Five personality Traits Model in moderation. The study was undertaken in the South African Police Service members in Alice town in the Eastern Cape. The study was based on a sample size of eighty four (n=84) out of 134 (N=134) police officers. A simple convenient random sample was used to sample participants. With the use of descriptive, correlation and inferential statistics the finding revealed instead that Conscientiousness has no significant relationship with WFC at (r= 0.02792, p= 0.8022) also Conscientiousness had no significant relationship with stress at (r= -0.04465, p= 0.6885). Overall, after separating the group according to those that scored low and those that scored high on conscientiousness scale, the study found the group low in conscientiousness not significantly correlated with WFC and stress (r= -0.02263, p= 0.9414). and the group with a high conscientiousness the study revealed a high significant relationship for police officers that scored high on Conscientiousness at (r= 0.40119, p< 0.00). The group low in conscientiousness has no correlation between WFC and stress thus different values of conscientiousness cause a change in the relationship between WFC and stress. Thus those who are low in conscientiousness do not have a relationship between WFC and stress. A call is made to the SAPS as an institution to consider prioritizing personality trait particularly applicants that score low on conscientiousness personality test during recruitment and selection of new police officers to avoid the outcomes associated with the nature of police work.
Format: 127 leaves; 30 cm
Format: pdf
Publisher: University of Fort Hare
Publisher: Faculty of Management & Commerce
Language: English
Rights: University of Fort Hare

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