Study On The Relationship Between The Public Security Police’s Occupational Stress And Mental Health

Police of the public security system bear intensively occupational stress whilethey are on an important mission of protecting the state and the citizens, whichdirectly affects their mental health level.This study modified the Police Occupational Stress Questionnaire,and used thequestionnaire with SCL-90,Simplified Coping Style Questionnaire (SCSQ) toinvestigate820policemen,and adopted SPSS17.0for data processing and statisticalanalysis, and discussed the influences of occupational stress on mental healthlevel and the regulating effect of different coping styles on occupational stress. Theconclusions are as follows:(1)Police generally suffer occupational stress;37.2%of the police under stress ofmoderately and above intensity. There are significant differences in gender, education,age and working area of the police’s occupational stress.(2)80.9%of the respondents’ SCL-90total scores are less than180,which showsthe police mental health is generally well, but19.1%detection rate of thepsychological symptoms shows that the police team’ s mental health issues need topay highly attention. The main problems are obsessive-compulsive, interpersonalsensitivity, poor sleep and diet, etc. And they are different in demographic variables,such as gender, education, age and working area.(3)Police occupational stress is negatively correlated to the mental health level,the greater the stess, the lower the mental health level. There is a significant relationbetween stress coping style and mental health level, positive coping style can improvepolice mental health level.(4) Police occupational stress mainly comes from job specification, organizationmanagement mode, family life, physical health and social environment, etc.Over-work, cognitive bias, values conflicts, contradiction between family and work,intensely introspective pressure and coping style badly affect police mentle healthlevel. Police professional features require police need to master some scientific waysof coping. In this study, author suggested that police can effectively alleviate theirstress and improve their psychological health level through enhancing professionalrole identity, establishing rational cognition, enhancing the ability of emotionmanage-ment, training fortitude will, mastering scientific ways of decompression,perfecting social support system,ect.