Ohälsa hos polisen
en explorativ undersökning av riskfaktorer och dess påverkan på mental ohälsa
StressPoliserHälsaArbetsmiljöOccupational healthIndustrial medicineYrkesmedicinArbetsmiljömedicinIndustrial psychologyArbetspsykologiIndustripsykologiMedicine and Health SciencesSocial Sciences
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.