Eunsuk Choi (Poster 7)
Kyungpook National University, Republic of Korea
Title: Post-traumatic growth among police officers: Systematic review
Biography
Biography: Eunsuk Choi (Poster 7)
Abstract
Aim: The purpose of this study was to analyze literature related to post-traumatic growth among police officers.
Methods: Comprehensive literature searches using Ovid-Embase, Ovid-Medline, Cochrane, PubMed and RISS were conducted. The research terms included police officers, police, trauma, posttraumatic growth, and growth.
Results: A total of 9 studies were identified. In the Korean researches, PTG was positively correlated with self-esteem, problem focused coping, emotion focused coping, social support, self-disclosure and deliberate rumination. In the foreign researches, PTG was correlated with thriving, resilience, events involving threat, personal relationship stress, trauma severity, life stress and gratitude. Demographic variables such as female, white were also associated with PTG.
Conclusion: To improve post-traumatic growth of police officers, strategies to increase stress coping, social support, are needed. Strategies to decrease stress, trauma and PTSD symptoms should be developed.