Ohälsa hos polisen : en explorativ undersökning av riskfaktorer och dess påverkan på mental ohälsa
(2004)Department of Psychology
- Abstract
- Earlier psychological research on stress and its complex of problems has identified several factors which have shown a relation with the occurrence of a poorer mental ill-health. In this study some of these factors have been examined in 69 police officers from Stockholm, Lund and Helsingborg. In the study, police officers with high and low self reported ill-health were compared considering trait anxiety, alexithymia and posttraumatic stress symptoms.
The results showed that police officers with poorer mental ill health had a significant higher degree of trait anxiety, the dimension of alexithymia difficulty identifying feelings and the PTSD-dimension avoidance and hyperarousal. The results also showed several positive relations among the... (More) - Earlier psychological research on stress and its complex of problems has identified several factors which have shown a relation with the occurrence of a poorer mental ill-health. In this study some of these factors have been examined in 69 police officers from Stockholm, Lund and Helsingborg. In the study, police officers with high and low self reported ill-health were compared considering trait anxiety, alexithymia and posttraumatic stress symptoms.
The results showed that police officers with poorer mental ill health had a significant higher degree of trait anxiety, the dimension of alexithymia difficulty identifying feelings and the PTSD-dimension avoidance and hyperarousal. The results also showed several positive relations among the variables that divided the groups. On account of the last-mentioned the results will above all be discussed in an integrating perspective. (Less)
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- author
- Herrman, Lisa and Stavenow, Emma
- supervisor
- organization
- year
- 2004
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- poliser, stress, hälsa, arbetsmiljö, Occupational health, industrial medicine, Yrkesmedicin, arbetsmiljömedicin, Industrial psychology, Arbetspsykologi, industripsykologi
- language
- Swedish
- id
- 1333484
- date added to LUP
- 2005-03-04 00:00:00
- date last changed
- 2005-07-04 00:00:00
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abstract = {{Earlier psychological research on stress and its complex of problems has identified several factors which have shown a relation with the occurrence of a poorer mental ill-health. In this study some of these factors have been examined in 69 police officers from Stockholm, Lund and Helsingborg. In the study, police officers with high and low self reported ill-health were compared considering trait anxiety, alexithymia and posttraumatic stress symptoms.
The results showed that police officers with poorer mental ill health had a significant higher degree of trait anxiety, the dimension of alexithymia difficulty identifying feelings and the PTSD-dimension avoidance and hyperarousal. The results also showed several positive relations among the variables that divided the groups. On account of the last-mentioned the results will above all be discussed in an integrating perspective.}},
author = {{Herrman, Lisa and Stavenow, Emma}},
language = {{swe}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{Ohälsa hos polisen : en explorativ undersökning av riskfaktorer och dess påverkan på mental ohälsa}},
year = {{2004}},
}