The Intention to be Police Officer

DOI

10.2991/icaaip-17.2018.7How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Police officer, Theory of Planned Behavior, Intention

Abstract

Police officer is expected to have a high integrity to do their job, so it is important to know their expectation, their motive, their belief and their objective. This research aims to examine intention to become police officer in youth and influencing factors by quantitative approach with correlation design. Numbers of participants in this research were 437 participants who were students of SPN Batua Police and Senior High School student grade 3 in Makassar. Questionnaires using Likert scale and opened question were distributed to participants. The technique of analyzing data was Spearman correlation test and content analysis as an additional analysis. The result shows significant positive correlation of attitude toward behavior, subjective norm, and perceived behavioral control to intention to become police officer. Intention to become police officer also differentiate by several background factors such as age, gender, culture, and parents background include education, occupation, and income.

Copyright

© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

Open Access

This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Nur Arifah Rahmah
AU  - Muhammad Tamar
AU  - Elvita Bellani
PY  - 2017/08
DA  - 2017/08
TI  - The Intention to be Police Officer
BT  - Proceedings of the 8th International Conference of Asian Association of Indigenous and Cultural Psychology (ICAAIP 2017)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 33
EP  - 36
SN  - 2352-5398
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DO  - 10.2991/icaaip-17.2018.7
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