1 Biostatistics and Epidemiology Branch, Health Effects Laboratory Division, The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Morgantown, WV, USA.
2 Department of Epidemiology and Environmental Health, School of Public Health and Health Professions, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA.
Int J Soc Psychiatry. 2018 Feb;64(1):63-72. doi: 10.1177/0020764017746197.
Police officers in the New Orleans geographic area faced a number of challenges following Hurricane Katrina.
This cross-sectional study examined the effect of social support, gratitude, resilience and satisfaction with life on symptoms of depression.
A total of 86 male and 30 female police officers from Louisiana participated in this study. Ordinary least-square (OLS) regression mediation analysis was used to estimate direct and indirect effects between social support, gratitude, resilience, satisfaction with life and symptoms of depression. All models were adjusted for age, alcohol intake, military experience and an increase in the number of sick days since Hurricane Katrina.
Mean depressive symptom scores were 9.6 ± 9.1 for females and 10.9 ± 9.6 for males. Mediation analyses indicates that social support and gratitude are directly associated with fewer symptoms of depression. Social support also mediated the relationships between gratitude and depression, gratitude and satisfaction with life, and satisfaction with life and depression. Similarly, resilience mediated the relationship between social support and fewer symptoms of depression.
Social support, gratitude and resilience are associated with higher satisfaction with life and fewer symptoms of depression. Targeting and building these factors may improve an officer's ability to address symptoms of depression.
新奥尔良地区的警察在卡特里娜飓风后面临着许多挑战。
本横断面研究探讨了社会支持、感激、适应力和生活满意度对抑郁症状的影响。
路易斯安那州共有 86 名男性和 30 名女性警察参与了这项研究。采用普通最小二乘法（OLS）回归中介分析来估计社会支持、感激、适应力、生活满意度与抑郁症状之间的直接和间接效应。所有模型均根据年龄、饮酒量、军事经历和自卡特里娜飓风以来病假天数的增加进行了调整。
女性的平均抑郁症状评分为 9.6±9.1，男性为 10.9±9.6。中介分析表明，社会支持和感激与较少的抑郁症状直接相关。社会支持还介导了感激与抑郁、感激与生活满意度、生活满意度与抑郁之间的关系。同样，适应力也介导了社会支持与较少抑郁症状之间的关系。
社会支持、感激和适应力与更高的生活满意度和较少的抑郁症状相关。针对和建立这些因素可能会提高警察应对抑郁症状的能力。
