Levels of Anger, Emotion Dysregulation and Conflict Management Style Among Police Officers

This research paper studied anger, emotion dysregulation and conflict management style among police officers. It sought to compare the variables of the study when grouped according to demographic profile of sex, age, civil status, position, length of being a police and type of community. With the total respondents of (184) police officers, mixed method of research was employed using standardized tests and in-depth-interview as major sources of data. Results showed that respondents have remarkably low anger, both with possessed strategies in their emotion dysregulation and have compromising conflict management style. Age, length of being a police and type of community have significant differences when compared to their anger, whereas only sex and length of time were found to be significant to collaboration, accommodation and compromising respectively. In addition, anger has significant relation to subscales of conflict management.

Keywords –anger, emotions dysregulation, conflict management style