This study focused on following objectives: First, it aimed to identify the reasons for choosing a career in policing. Second, in attempted to identify the kinds of anticipatory socialization of police cadets. Lastly, it attempted to investigate the r...
This study focused on following objectives: First, it aimed to identify the reasons for choosing a career in policing. Second, in attempted to identify the kinds of anticipatory socialization of police cadets. Lastly, it attempted to investigate the relations of the reasons for choosing careers as police officers and anticipatory socialization. For this empirical research, questionnaire survey was administered. A total of 956 questionnaires were distributed to those who were currently trained at the Line Officer Course of the Central Police Academy. Of these, 928 were used for data analyses. To investigate the reasons for choosing a career of police officer and anticipatory socialization of police cadets, exploratory factor analysis with varimax rotation was used. Then, multiple regression analysis were employed to see the most influencing factors on overall anticipatory socialization. As a result of factor analysis, each four factors of dependent-independent variables were identified. The reasons for applying to police organization was social responsibility & self-achievement, yearns for the police, affects of marginal person, and occupational fascination. And anticipatory socialization was law abiding spirit(integrity), spirit of sacrifice(sense of justice), fairness of law enforcement, and ex-authoritarianism(kindliness). With regard to integrity, it was significantly influenced by three motivation factors such as social responsibility & self-achievement(+), yearns for the police(-), and occupational fascination(-). And kindliness was significantly influenced by occupational fascination(-), age(+) and expected rank when retired(+). Meanwhile, sense of justice was influenced by social responsibility & self-achievement(+), yearns for the police(+), occupational fascination(-) and age, academic records. Finally, fairness of law enforcement was significantly influenced by social responsibility & self-achievement(+) and yearns for the police(-). In sum, social responsibility & self-achievement(intrinsic motivation) was identified as important factors to increase anticipatory socialization of police cadets. And affects of marginal person did not influence to anticipatory socialization.