Abstract:
The purposes of this correlational research were to examine coping of the traffic policemen, Bangkok Metropolis and to investigate the relationships between marital status, working experience, perceived health, environment of working, and social support with coping. Three hundred and forty-five traffic policemen of 27 stations, aged 24-60 years old, recruited by a multistage sampling. Questionnaires were composed of demographic information, perceived health, environment of working, social support, and coping (problem-focused coping and emotion-focused coping). All questionnaires were tested for content validities by five panel of experts, and reliabilities were 0.80, 0.85, 0.96, 0.97, 0.97, 0.89, and 0.91, respectively. Descriptive statistics (e.g., percent, mean, and standard deviation), Point Biserial correlation and Pearsons Product Moment Correlation were used to analyze data. The results showed followings: 1. More than half (51.9%) of subjects with the age between 41-50 years. The mean age was 44.56 years (SD = 6.52), the majority had couple marital status (82%), the most average working experience were between 11-20 years (43.2%). Mean score of working-experience was 13.74 years (SD = 7.38). 2. There were no relationships between marital status and coping and between working-experience and coping among traffic policemen. 3. There was positive statistically significant relationships between perceived health with problem-focused coping and emotion-focused coping at the level of .05 (r = .26 and .23). 4. There was positive statistically significant relationships between environment of working with problem-focused coping and emotion-focused coping at the level of .05 (r = .21 and .24). 5. There was positive statistically significant relationships between social support (commanders) with problem-focused coping and emotion-focused coping at the level of .05 (r = .19 and .30). There was positive statistically significant relationships between social support (friends/co-workers) with problem-focused coping and emotion-focused coping at the level of .05 (r = .28 and .23) and there was positive statistically significant relationships between social support (family) with problem-focused coping (r = .02), but there was no relationships with emotion-focused coping at the level of .05 (r = .02, p = .67).