Police Women and Their Husbands: Outcomes of vocational stress in families

Vocational stress may be transferred to the members of the person’s family/The problem may get specially significant when the job is of a kind which is, like police, work full of stress. However, little literature exists on the policewomen and their family's experiences in this regard.A study on 1081 police women in 1998 analyzed vocalional stress levels, social support sources, and affection erosion of their families. The present paper studies the experiences of women married to policemen and those who are not.Variables such as spouse support, effects of vocational stress on the spouse support, affection erosion, and family conflicts are compared in this paper.