Department of Psychology, University of Regina, 3737 Wascana Parkway, Regina, SK S4S0A2, Canada.
Department of Management, Lang School of Business and Economics, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON N1G2W1, Canada.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 May 13;19(10):5926. doi: 10.3390/ijerph19105926.
Public safety personnel (PSP) face frequent stressors that increase their risk of developing symptoms of depression and anxiety. In addition to being exposed to potentially traumatic events, PSP trainees may face a compounded risk of developing mental health symptoms, as their training environments are conducive to social comparisons and the resultant painful emotion of envy. Envy is associated with numerous negative health and occupational outcomes. Fortunately, there are several individual difference factors associated with increased emotional regulation, and such factors may offer resilience against the damaging mental health effects of envy. In this study, we examined the interplay between dispositional mindfulness, self-compassion, and dispositional envy in predicting job satisfaction, stress, experience of positive and negative emotions, subjective resilience, and symptoms of depression and anxiety in a sample of police trainees ( = 104). A substantial minority of trainees reported clinically significant symptoms of depression ( = 19:18.3%) and anxiety ( = 24:23.1%) in accordance with the cut-off scores on screening measures. Consistent with hypotheses, dispositional envy was associated with lower job satisfaction, greater stress, and greater anxiety and depression. Furthermore, envy was associated with higher negative emotions, lower positive emotions, and lower subjective resilience. Dispositional mindfulness and self-compassion were associated with greater job satisfaction, lower stress, and reduced symptoms of depression and anxiety. Moreover, mindfulness and self-compassion were both associated with lower negative emotions, higher positive emotions, and subjective resilience. The associations between envy and the relevant job and mental health outcomes were significantly diminished after controlling for mindfulness and self-compassion. This suggests that these protective traits may serve as transdiagnostic buffers to the effects of envy on mental health. The results of this study confirmed the damaging effects of envy and suggested the potential remediation of these effects through the cultivation of mindfulness and self-compassion.
公共安全人员（PSP）经常面临压力，这增加了他们出现抑郁和焦虑症状的风险。除了接触潜在的创伤性事件外， PSP 学员还可能面临心理健康症状发展的复合风险，因为他们的培训环境有利于社会比较，从而产生痛苦的嫉妒情绪。嫉妒与许多负面的健康和职业结果有关。幸运的是，有几个与情绪调节能力增强相关的个体差异因素，这些因素可能为抵御嫉妒对心理健康的破坏性影响提供韧性。在这项研究中，我们研究了性格正念、自我同情和性格嫉妒之间的相互作用，以预测警察学员样本中的工作满意度、压力、积极和消极情绪体验、主观韧性以及抑郁和焦虑症状（n = 104）。根据筛选措施的截止分数，相当一部分学员报告了临床显著的抑郁症状（n = 19：18.3%）和焦虑症状（n = 24：23.1%）。与假设一致，性格嫉妒与较低的工作满意度、更大的压力以及更高的焦虑和抑郁有关。此外，嫉妒与更高的负面情绪、更低的积极情绪和更低的主观韧性有关。性格正念和自我同情与更高的工作满意度、更低的压力以及抑郁和焦虑症状的减少有关。此外，正念和自我同情都与较低的负面情绪、更高的积极情绪和主观韧性有关。在控制了正念和自我同情之后，嫉妒与相关工作和心理健康结果之间的关联显著降低。这表明这些保护特质可能作为嫉妒对心理健康影响的跨诊断缓冲。这项研究的结果证实了嫉妒的破坏性影响，并表明通过培养正念和自我同情可以纠正这些影响。
