International Science Community Association International Research Journal of Environmental Sciences 2319 - 1414 6 1 2017 01 22 Impact of life events on development of personality disorder among traffic police personnel in Bangalore City 62 66 EN Verma Poonam 1 Tropical Forest Research Institute, Jabalpur, India Singh Sanjay 2 Tropical Forest Research Institute, Jabalpur, India Verma R.K. 3 Tropical Forest Research Institute, Jabalpur, India Vattikonda Srinivasa Rao 1 Department of Zoology, Nizam College (A), Osmania University, Hyderabad, Telengana State, India Sangam Sabita Raja 2 Department of Zoology, Nizam College (A), Osmania University, Hyderabad, Telengana State, India A. Tailor Manthan 1 Dept. of Environmental Studies, Faculty of Science, The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara, Gujarat, India Modi Vidhi 2 Dept. of Environmental Studies, Faculty of Science, The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara, Gujarat, India Adhikary S.P. 1 Department of Botany, Aska Science College, Aska-761111, Dist. Ganjam, Odisha, India Karmakar Narayan Chandra 1 Post Graduate Department of Botany, Barasat Government College, 10 K N C Road, Barasat, Kolkata- 700124, India Roy Anindita 2 Post Graduate Department of Botany, Barasat Government College, 10 K N C Road, Barasat, Kolkata- 700124, India Hazra Anjan 3 Agricultural and Ecological Research Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, 203 B.T. Road, Kolkata - 700108, India Mahish Manoj Kumar 1 Microbial Physiological Laboratory, Department of Botany, C.M. Dubey Post Graduate College Bilaspur (Chhattisgarh), India Shukla R.V. 2 Microbial Physiological Laboratory, Department of Botany, C.M. Dubey Post Graduate College Bilaspur (Chhattisgarh), India Choubey Anil 3 Microbial Physiological Laboratory, Department of Botany, C.M. Dubey Post Graduate College Bilaspur (Chhattisgarh), India Sharma Amit 4 Microbial Physiological Laboratory, Department of Botany, C.M. Dubey Post Graduate College Bilaspur (Chhattisgarh), India Das Sanjeeb Kumar 1 Department of Life Science, Regional Institute of Education (NCERT), Bhubaneswar-751022, India Satapathy Mahendra Kumar 2 Department of Life Science, Regional Institute of Education (NCERT), Bhubaneswar-751022, India Bisoi Sidhanta Sekhar 3 Department of Life Science, Regional Institute of Education (NCERT), Bhubaneswar-751022, India M. Saravanaraja 1 PG and Research Department of Zoology, Sri Vasavi College, Erode – 638 316, Affiliated to Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, India K. Nagarajan 2 PG and Research Department of Zoology, Sri Vasavi College, Erode – 638 316, Affiliated to Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, India G.S. Soumya 1 Seshadripuram College, Seshadripuram, Bangalore, Karnataka, India Shrinithivihahshini N.D. 2 Department of Environmental Management, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirapalli, Tamil Nadu, India N. Nandini 3 Department of Environmental Science, Bangalore University, Bangalore, Karnataka, India N. Sunitha 4 Department of Environmental Science, Bangalore University, Bangalore, Karnataka, India G.K. Sudhir 5 Department of Physiology, AIMS, Bellur, Karnataka, India > Research Paper 2016 12 6 2017 01 22 Stress has become a part of every one’s life and the major contributors of stress could be daily hassles, stressful life events and environment or occupational exposure to stress. A number of research works has been carried out in the past on various factors causing stress on health of individuals. However cumulative effect of different types of stress on individual’s emotional behaviour or abnormal personality traits is an area of research which has scope for more analysis. Researches in the recent past have revealed increase in environmental pollution and increased mortality and morbidity due to environmental pollution, especially among those individuals who are occupationally exposed to environmental pollution. Therefore, the present study has been carried out to find the impact of life events induced stress on development of personality disorders on traffic police personnel who are occupationally exposed to environmental pollution. A sample of250 traffic police personnel working in 21 traffic monitoring stations of north, south, east, west, central, north east and south east traffic divisions of Bangalore city were selected for the study. Assessment of stress level due to life events and its influence on personality were carried through survey using General questionnaire, Social Readjustment Rating Scale (SRRS) questionnaire and Standardised Assessment of Personality- Abbreviated Scale (SAPAS) questionnaire. Association between stress levels due to life events and development of personality disorders was assessed statistically using Chi-Square test. The study reveals that association between SRRS scoring and SAPAS scoring among experimental group was found to be statistically significant (& Copyright@ International Science Community Association