Social Situations and Psychological Characteristics Affecting Ideal Work Behavior among Traffic Police
Keywords:
work behavior, police ideology, traffic policeAbstract
This research was to analyze the cause of behavior based on the interactionism model purposes, 1) to compare ideal work behavior among traffic police in different bio-society 2) to study the interaction among variables in social situations and psychological characteristics affecting ideal work behavior among traffic police and 3) to study the influence of factors of social situations, and psychological and psychological situational characteristics affecting ideal work behavior of traffic police. The samples of this research consisted of 364 traffic police under the Metropolitan Police Bureau and were chosen by the stratified sampling method. The data were collected by questionnaires with a six-point rating scale. The IOC was at 0.60 - 1.00, the reliability with alpha coefficient was at 0.092 - 0.627 and the discrimination index was at 2.241 -13.783. The results revealed that 1) traffic police with different service terms and ranks had different ideal work behaviors of traffic police without statistical significance at 0.05 2) the interaction between variables of the courage to do the right thing and variables of patronage system relationships affected ideal work behavior in respect of working with the patience of the traffic police. Furthermore, the interaction between variables of the courage to do the right thing and political influence influenced overall and each ideal work behavior, including working with generosity and working for public interests and justice 3) factors influencing ideal work behavior among traffic police were good attitude towards ideal work and political influence.
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