Angehrn Andréanne, Vig Kelsey D, Mason Julia E, Stelnicki Andrea M, Shields Robyn E, Asmundson Gordon J G, Carleton R Nicholas
Anxiety and Illness Behaviour Laboratory, University of Regina, Regina, Canada.
Canadian Institute for Public Safety Research and Treatment, Regina, Canada.
Cogn Behav Ther. 2022 Jan;51(1):3-20. doi: 10.1080/16506073.2021.1877338. Epub 2021 Feb 8.
Police officers, and specifically women officers, report elevated mental disorder rates relative to the general population, which may be impacted by sleep quality, policing-related stress, and social support. In a sample of Canadian police officers, sex was indirectly related to post traumatic stress, depression, generalized anxiety, panic, and social anxiety symptoms through its relationships with social support and sleep quality, but not through policing-related stress. Sex was indirectly related to problematic alcohol use symptoms through sleep quality only. Differences in clinical symptom severity between both sexes may be partially accounted for by the worsened sleep quality reported by women officers relative to their men counterparts. Conversely, general social support appears to be a protective, albeit insufficient, factor influencing the mental health of women police officers. Male and women police officers did not differ in their reports of policing-related stress. The current results underscore the importance of incorporating strategies to improve sleep practices into police workplace environments. Additionally, findings that general social support and policing-related stress do not help explain the trend of increased clinical severity reported by women police suggest that more research is still needed to identify and delineate other contributing factors.
警察，尤其是女警察，报告显示其精神障碍发生率高于普通人群，这可能受到睡眠质量、警务相关压力和社会支持的影响。在一组加拿大警察样本中，性别通过与社会支持和睡眠质量的关系，间接与创伤后应激、抑郁、广泛性焦虑、惊恐和社交焦虑症状相关，但与警务相关压力无关。性别仅通过睡眠质量与有问题的酒精使用症状间接相关。女警察相对于男警察报告的睡眠质量较差，这可能部分解释了两性临床症状严重程度的差异。相反，一般社会支持似乎是影响女警察心理健康的一个保护因素，尽管作用不足。男警察和女警察在警务相关压力的报告上没有差异。当前结果强调了将改善睡眠习惯的策略纳入警察工作场所环境的重要性。此外，一般社会支持和警务相关压力无法解释女警察报告的临床严重程度增加趋势，这表明仍需要更多研究来识别和描述其他影响因素。
