Abstract:
This thesis is a survey research, with the main aim to compare working behavior of
traffic police with levels of risk perception and levels of morale, in order to examine the relations
between risk perception and working behavior, and between morale and working behavior.
Besides, the model for predicting working behavior from risk perception and morale is proposed
to be built. The samples of this study were 214 traffic police from Metropolitan Police Division 1.
The instrument for data collecting was a questionnaire with the Percentage, Mean,
Standard Deviation, Kruskal-Wallis H Test, Pearsons Product Moment Correlation Coefficient
and Multiple Regression Analysis used for data analysis. The results showed that, traffic police
generally had medium risk perception and morale whereas working behavior was considered to
be high. At significant level of 0.05 the hypothesis test was concluded as follows: different levels
of risk perception did not affect working behavior while different levels of morale did affect
working behavior. There was no correlation between risk perception and working behavior;
on the other hand, the correlation between morale and working behavior appeared positive.
The predicting equation for prediction of working behavior could be concluded as below:
Working Behavior = 2.086 + 0.362 (Morale) + 0.183 (Risk Perception)