ArticlePolicing (Bradford, England)2019
Police stress and depressive symptoms: role of coping and hardiness.
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- Assessment of the Mental Health of Police Officers: A Systematic Review of Specific Instruments.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024Pooled it
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- From work-related trauma to suicidal ideation: a serial mediation model of posttraumatic stress and depression in rescue workers.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- Personality predicts internalizing symptoms and quality of life in police cadets: a comparison of artificial intelligence and parametric approaches.Health & justice · 2025Article
- Stress among police officials in Kerala, India: an analysis of organizational and operational factors.BMC psychology · 2025Article
- Firefighters Versus Law Enforcement Officers: A Comparison of Cardiovascular Disease Risk.International journal of exercise science · 2025Article
- Subgroups of depressive symptoms in Korean police officers: A latent class analysis.Preventive medicine reports · 2023Article
- Hardiness moderates the effects of COVID-19 stress on anxiety and depression.Journal of affective disorders · 2022Article
- Suicidal Ideation and Mental Health: The Moderating Effect of Coping Strategies in the Police Force.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Fear of COVID-19 and Life Satisfaction: The Role of the Health-Related Hardiness and Sense of Coherence.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021Article
- Burnout and Stress Measurement in Police Officers: Literature Review and a Study With the Operational Police Stress Questionnaire.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Article
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Abstract
PURPOSE –: Chronic exposure to occupational stress may lead to depressive symptoms in police officers. The association between police stress and depressive symptoms and the potential influences of coping and hardiness were evaluated. The paper aims to discuss this issue. DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH –: Stress level was assessed in the Buffalo Cardio-Metabolic Occupational Police Stress Study (2004-2009) with the Spielberger Police Stress Survey. The frequency and severity of events at work were used to calculate stress indices for the past year. The Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression (CES-D) Scale was used to measure depressive symptoms during the past week. Linear regression was used to evaluate the association between the stress indices and depressive symptom scores. Models were adjusted for age, sex, race, smoking status and alcohol intake, and stratified by median values for coping (passive, active and support seeking) and hardiness (control, commitment and challenge) to assess effect modification. FINDINGS –: Among the 388 officers (73.2 percent men), a significant positive association was observed between total stress and the CES-D score ( ORIGINALITY/VALUE –: Results indicate that high active coping and hardiness modify the effect of work stress in law enforcement, acting to reduce depressive symptoms.
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