This study aimed to determine the extent to which young people preparing for a professional career as police officers demonstrate emotional resilience to stressful events, as well as whether statistically significant differences in emotional resilience to stressful events exist among youth of different genders and ages. The sample consisted of 400 respondents, including 149 students enrolled in the Police High School in Banja Luka and 251 students at the Police Academy of the Republic Srpska Ministry of the Interior. The respondents were between 17 and 27 years of age. Of the total number of respondents, 317 were male and 83 were female. This study was conducted in 2024 in Banja Luka. The COPED/NEG-EMOC-BM-1992 Scale (Milosavljević, 2012) was used to test our hypothesis. The findings indicate that young people preparing for a professional career as police officers exhibit a high level of emotional resilience to stressful events; young women show higher levels of negative emotional reactions to stressful events, while students at the Police High School partially demonstrate higher levels of negative emotional responses to stressful events than students at the Police Academy.
Miroslav Đurić (Wed,) studied this question.