Korol Stephanie, Vig Kelsey D, Sapach Michelle J N Teale, Asmundson Gordon J G, Carleton R Nicholas
Department of Psychology, University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada.
Police J. 2021 Mar;94(1):40-57. doi: 10.1177/0032258X19894619. Epub 2019 Dec 17.
The current study was designed to assess whether cognitive risk factors (i.e. anxiety sensitivity (AS), intolerance of uncertainty (IU)) explained variance in mental disorder symptoms in Canadian police officers beyond variance explained by demographic variables (i.e. sex, marital status, education, years of service). Police participants (708 men; 271 women) completed measures assessing posttraumatic stress disorder, panic disorder, social anxiety disorder, major depressive disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, IU and AS. Multivariate analysis of variance demonstrated that only main effects of sex were significant for all symptom variables, except SAD. Hierarchical multiple regressions demonstrated that AS and IU accounted for greater variance than sex on all mental disorder symptom measures, which suggests that cognitive risk factors explain more variance in mental disorder symptoms than sex. Efforts to reduce AS and IU may be beneficial for improving police mental health.
本研究旨在评估认知风险因素（即焦虑敏感性（AS）、不确定性不耐受（IU））是否能解释加拿大警察精神障碍症状的变异，且这种解释超出了人口统计学变量（即性别、婚姻状况、教育程度、服役年限）所能解释的变异。警察参与者（708名男性；271名女性）完成了评估创伤后应激障碍、惊恐障碍、社交焦虑障碍、重度抑郁症、广泛性焦虑障碍、IU和AS的测量。多变量方差分析表明，除社交焦虑障碍外，性别对所有症状变量的主效应均显著。分层多元回归表明，在所有精神障碍症状测量中，AS和IU比性别解释了更大的变异，这表明认知风险因素比性别能解释更多精神障碍症状的变异。降低AS和IU的努力可能有助于改善警察的心理健康。
