Granholm Valmari Elin, Nygren Ulla, Ghazinour Mehdi, Gilenstam Kajsa
Occupational Therapy Unit, Department of Community Medicine and Rehabilitation, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden.
Police Education, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden.
Front Psychol. 2023 Jul 6;14:1178314. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1178314. eCollection 2023.
Police officers frequently encounter stressful social situations during their working days. Furthermore, previous research on policing and families show that police officers' families are impacted in different ways when at least one member of the family has the role of a police officer. Despite work spilling over to family life there is currently little research on police officers' role-balancing. Thus, the purpose of this study was to explore and describe the challenges that arise at the intersection between police officers' professional roles and their private life roles as parents and life partners, as well as how police officers balance these roles in between. We used qualitative content analysis after interviewing 13 uniformed police officers. The findings show how the police officers' professional roles affect their private life roles within three different sub-themes and are summarized under the theme of "Balancing conflicting roles: Coping with professional and private life commitments". The theme revolves around the various challenges of working as a uniformed police officer, such as hypervigilance and risks, as well as the enrichments and conflicts of working shifts while also juggling private life roles. The results also touch on gender and equality in life-partner relationships. The study raises an important question about how these challenges can be mitigated within Police authorities to enable uniformed police officers to balance their professional and personal lives in a healthy and sustainable manner.
警察在工作日经常会遇到压力重重的社会情况。此外，先前关于警务与家庭的研究表明，当家庭成员中至少有一人担任警察角色时，警察的家庭会受到不同方式的影响。尽管工作会渗透到家庭生活中，但目前关于警察角色平衡的研究很少。因此，本研究的目的是探讨和描述警察的职业角色与其作为父母和生活伴侣的私人生活角色之间交叉点出现的挑战，以及警察如何在两者之间平衡这些角色。在采访了13名穿制服的警察后，我们采用了定性内容分析法。研究结果展示了警察的职业角色如何在三个不同的子主题中影响他们的私人生活角色，并在“平衡冲突角色：应对职业和私人生活责任”这一主题下进行了总结。该主题围绕着作为穿制服警察工作的各种挑战展开，如过度警觉和风险，以及轮班工作的充实与冲突，同时还要兼顾私人生活角色。研究结果还涉及生活伴侣关系中的性别和平等问题。该研究提出了一个重要问题，即如何在警察部门内部减轻这些挑战，以使穿制服的警察能够以健康和可持续的方式平衡他们的职业和个人生活。
