School of Social Sciences, University of the Sunshine Coast, Sippy Downs, Australia.
Health and Psychology Innovations (HaPI) Research Lab, School of Applied Psychology, Menzies Health Institute Queensland, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia.
Psychol Health. 2020 Nov;35(11):1306-1325. doi: 10.1080/08870446.2020.1743841. Epub 2020 Mar 26.
Emergency service workers like police officers experience high levels of stress in the course of their regular duties. Holding particular stress mindsets may help to mitigate the deleterious effects of stress and promote wellbeing in workers experiencing regular stress. The study aimed to examine the processes by which stress mindsets relate to health and wellbeing in police officers. A stress beliefs model in which perceived somatic symptoms and coping behaviours mediate effects of stress mindsets on outcomes was tested. Police officers ( = 134) completed an online cross-sectional survey. Perceived somatic symptoms, proactive coping behaviours, physical and psychological wellbeing, and perceived stress. Bayesian path analysis with informative priors revealed indirect effects of stress mindsets on psychological wellbeing and perceived stress through proactive coping behaviours and perceived somatic symptoms. Physical and psychological wellbeing, and perceived stress were predicted by stress mindsets directly, and through perceived somatic symptoms. The findings support model predictions that behaviours aimed at proactively meeting demands and perceived somatic symptoms mediated the relationship between stress mindset and health-related outcomes. The findings provide further foundational knowledge on mechanisms through which stress mindset is associated with outcomes and can inform future longitudinal and experimental research.
应急服务人员（如警察）在日常工作中承受着高度的压力。持有特定的压力思维方式可能有助于减轻压力的有害影响，促进经常承受压力的工作人员的健康和幸福感。本研究旨在探讨压力思维方式与警察健康和幸福感之间的关系。检验了一种压力信念模型，其中感知的躯体症状和应对行为中介了压力思维方式对结果的影响。警察（n=134）完成了一项在线横断面调查。感知的躯体症状、主动应对行为、身体和心理幸福感以及感知的压力。具有信息先验的贝叶斯路径分析显示，压力思维方式通过主动应对行为和感知的躯体症状对心理幸福感和感知压力产生间接影响。身体和心理幸福感以及感知压力既可以直接受到压力思维方式的预测，也可以通过感知的躯体症状来预测。研究结果支持了这样一种假设，即旨在主动应对需求的行为和感知的躯体症状中介了压力思维方式与健康相关结果之间的关系。这些发现为压力思维方式与结果相关的机制提供了进一步的基础知识，并可以为未来的纵向和实验研究提供信息。
