Self-Reported Coping Strategies for Managing Work-Related Stress among Public Safety Personnel

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dc.contributor.authorAnderson, Gregory, S.
dc.contributor.authorRicciardelli, Rosemary
dc.contributor.authorTam-Seto, Linna
dc.contributor.authorGiwa, Sulaimon
dc.contributor.authorCarleton, R. Nicholas
dc.date.accessioned2023-01-10T20:12:15Z
dc.date.available2023-01-10T20:12:15Z
dc.date.issued2022-02-18
dc.description© 2022 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).en_US
dc.description.abstractPublic safety personnel (PSP) experience a disproportionately high number of on-the-job stressors compared to the general population. PSP develop self-initiated actions, or coping strategies, that either confront the situation (approach strategies) or avoid the situation (avoidance strategies) to reduce the impact of stressors on their well-being. Understanding how PSP cope with stress is critical to ensuring their safety and that of the public. In the current study, we examined the coping strategies of PSP (n = 828 in the total sample). Participants managed their experiences of occupational stress or distress using three primary approach coping strategies: education (learning about mental illness and their causes), self-reliance (processes of self-reflection), and treatment (pharmaceutical, psychotherapy) that were considered adaptive. Results demonstrate PSP used multiple coping strategies simultaneously to deal with occupational stress. PSP who reported doing better tended to attribute their success to treatment, specifically psychotherapy, either alone or in combination with other interventions, and almost always emphasizing important supports from co-workers, families, and friends. Changing workplace culture could help to de-pathologize the effects of stress reactions being perceived as individual “failings”.en_US
dc.description.authorstatusFacultyen_US
dc.description.peerreviewyesen_US
dc.description.sponsorshipThis research was funded by Carleton’s Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) through a New Investigator Award (FRN: 13666). and by Anderson’s CIHR Mental Wellness in Public Safety Team Grant (MWP: 172806).en_US
dc.identifier.citationAnderson, G. S., Ricciardelli, R., Tam-Seto, L., Giwa, S., & Carleton, R. N. (2022). Self-reported coping strategies for managing work-related stress among public safety personnel. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(4), 2355. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19042355en_US
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19042355
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10294/15570
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Instituteen_US
dc.rightsAttribution 4.0 International*
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/*
dc.subjectcopingen_US
dc.subjectpublic safety personnelen_US
dc.subjectstressen_US
dc.subjectmental healthen_US
dc.subjectinjuryen_US
dc.titleSelf-Reported Coping Strategies for Managing Work-Related Stress among Public Safety Personnelen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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