01653nam a22001217a 4500008004100000100003300041245009800074260003200172300003600204520121700240650004201457773003201499210818b           ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aPinki, Jha and Nitesh Kumar   aWays of coping and mental health among male and female police constables: A comparative study  aThe Indian Police Journal    a67(4), Oct-Dec, 2020: p.159-174  aPolice play an important role in maintaining laws, rules and regulation in the society. In doing so, their nature of duty put them in different kind of mental health issues like stress and anxiety. Ways of coping skills help them to cope effectively with those mental health issues. Gender plays a vital role in determining one’s coping strategies and mental health. The effort is made in this piece of work to study gender differences in the variables under study. The data was collected from 300 police constables (an equal number of male and female)in the age range of 25 to 40 years utilizing random sampling technique. Ways of Coping Questionnaire (Folkman and Lazarus, 1988) and WHO Measure of Mental Health (Wig, 1999) were administered to collect the data. Results were obtained on applying t-test which revealed that male and female police constables are significantly different in ways of coping and mental health. Male police constables were found to have higher mean scores on the variables, ways of coping and mental health than female police constables, which, reflects comparatively better ways of coping and mental health in male police constables than female police constables. – Reproduced   aPolice, Ways of coping, Mental health  a The Indian Police Journal