Abstract
Among the variables associated with occupational stress, two of the most studied are the adverse perceptions of psychosocial risk factors in the workplace and burnout. With the rise of positive psychology, other variables of the individual type, such as hardy personality have also been the subject of study. No studies have been found that jointly examine these variables related to mental health in police officers. The aim of this research was to analyze which variables were associated with mental health in police officers. A total of 223 policemen (202 men and 21 women) participated in a cross-sectional study. Of all the variables, emotional exhaustion and perception of problems as challenges were the only factors introduced in the regression model. These factors must be considered to improve both human resource interventions and occupational health practices in this professional group.
Highlights
Police officers are highly likely to suffer from work-related stress due to the obligations and tasks of their work, such as providing help, mediating conflicts between citizens, organizing traffic or reporting offenses
We have found no previous studies on the prediction of police officers that comprise psychological health that simultaneously consider predictor variables such as perception of psychosocial risk factors, burnout dimensions, and hardy personality
As for the relationship between psychosocial risk factors and hardy personality, the highest correlation occurred between organizational support and commitment, which was negative and significant (r = −0.38, p < 0.01)
Summary
Police officers are highly likely to suffer from work-related stress due to the obligations and tasks of their work, such as providing help, mediating conflicts between citizens, organizing traffic or reporting offenses. In order to explain the occurrence of work-related stress, the theoretical models most used in research have been The Demand Control Social Support model (Karasek and Theorell, 1990) and the Effort Rewards Imbalance model (Siegrist, 1998) These models state that workers experience stress, on the one hand, when he/she perceive excessive work demands and little control over them, and, on the other hand, when they note an imbalance between the efforts invested in their job and the rewards obtained in return. The demands labor resources model (Bakker and Demerouti, 2013) has been used in recent years to explain the occurrence of work-related stress This model indicates that there are underlying psychological processes that play an important role in the development of Predictors of Mental Health in Police Officers work pressure and motivation. Hardy personality has been one of the studied individual variables that has been the most-related to work stress, partly due to the rise of positive psychology within the field of Work and Organizational Psychology (Bakker et al, 2012; Moreno-Jiménez et al, 2012)
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