The Impact of Depression on Job Satisfaction and Conflict among Police Officers

In this study, I identified the actual state of depression among police officials, confirmed its level of severity, and empirically compared and analyzed this with the level of job satisfaction and conflict of police officials to determine whether depression affects police officials' job satisfaction and conflicts inside and outside the workplace. The Korean version of the depression screening tool(PHQ-9) was used to measure the level of depression of police officers. Although the depression level of the majority of those surveyed was not very high, more than 30% of people had mild or more severe depression, which is quite a number. In order to confirm the effect of depression level on job satisfaction and conflict inside and outside the workplace, the depression level and job satisfaction of the survey subjects were regressed, and the average for each group was analyzed using variance analysis(ANOVA) was performed. As a result of a regression analysis of the depression level and job satisfaction of the survey subjects, a statistically significant negative relationship was confirmed between the depression level and job satisfaction, confirming that as the depression level of police officers increases, job satisfaction decreases. As a result of analysis of variance(ANOVA) on the averages for each group using the depression level of the survey subjects and internal and external conflicts at work as factors, the differences in depression levels according to internal and external conflicts at work were not large and were statistically significant. However, cases with experience of conflict within and outside the workplace showed slightly higher levels of depression than those without experience with conflict inside and outside the workplace.