Analyzing the Influence of Personality Traits on Occupational Stress and Coping Mechanisms Among Women Police Personnel in Chennai

Gender-specific expectations, dual roles, and the pressures its agencies place on them exacerbate the challenges women police officers have encountered the in a field of the law enforcement, a very demanding of profession. Understanding of how the personality characteristics affect stress percepting and the development of the coping mechanisms helps one to the see psychological well-being in a such settings. Though study on occupational stress has been done, especially in a relation to the personality-driven coping methods, there remains a lack of the empirical research focusing on female police officers operation of in an indian cities. This difference hinders the evolution of the interventions especially aimed at mental health. A structured questionaire was sent to the over 250 female police officers in a Chennai under the quantitative research approach for a this project. Coping mechanisms are also assessed using the COPE Inventory; coping methods are assessed using the Perceived Stress Scale (PSS); and the personality traits are identified using the Big Five Inventory (BFI). Data analysis used SPS 26.0 and the SmartPLS 4.0. Coping mechanisms, stress, and the personality traits are examined using the structural equating modeling (SEM). The results imply a notable link between the characteristics of the personality, especially neuroticism and the conscientiousness, and the personal stress levels.