경찰공무원의 외상 후 성장 영향요인의 구조관계 검증 = A study on the structural relationship of influential factors for post-traumatic growth of police officers|RISS 상세보기

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This study explores cause and effect among self-resilience, social support, deliberate rumination, and post-traumatic growth and examines pathways and influential level for the variables in case of police officers allocated in metropolitan areas. In order to conduct this study, it is designed to survey 500 police officers in metropolitan areas, selecting 382 police officers’ answers.
To understand types and frequency of traumatic events of police officers, traumatic-events lists is used to find injury on duty or experience in witness of scared crime accidents and to scale their response level. In addition, it is designed to utilize Impact of Event Scale(IES-R) conducted by Horowitz(1979) to find their substantial level of psychological trauma; it can be used to select those who are scored at or above 17points in IES-R, which means they have suffered psychological trauma.
In result of the survey, 152 police officers(91.6%) among those above 17points in IES-R have experience in witness for violence victimization, which is the highest frequent traumatic event, followed by experience in witness for coworkers’ injury with 121 police officers(72.9%).
In terms of the result that surveyed which trauma event is the most devastated, the experience of witness for homicide is recognized as the most shocking event with 34 police officers(20.5%). Next, 22 police officers(13.3%) regards the experience of clash with those who threatened by guns or lethal weapons, followed by 18 police officers(10.8%) with indirect experience on coworkers’ injury. This result shows that police officers recognize injury on duty or witness of coworkers’ injury as the most traumatic events.
This study explores a hypothetical structural model to confirm existence of influential factors’ relationship based on existing theories regarding post-traumatic growth. This study has two areas where individual factor and environmental factor are divided that is based on the theoretical model of post-traumatic growth. In addition, it tests the relation between rumination as an alternative to life crisis and post-traumatic growth. The theoretical model of post-traumatic growth includes self-resilience as individual factors and social support as environmental factors.
The result indicates that social support has a direct effect on post-traumatic growth(β=.133, p<0.01), but there is no indirect effect between them. The total effect of social support on post-traumatic growth indicates β=.151(p<0.001), and deliberate rumination has a significant effect on post-traumatic growth.
With regard to the result, this study suggest as following.
Firstly, social support and rumination are founded as influential factors that facilitate post-traumatic growth for police officers. Thus, the police officers who suffer from trauma events are able to overcome psychological stress and trouble when they recognize that their family and colleagues help them.
Secondly, rumination is proved as the important factor for increasing post-traumatic growth. This result indicates that even though police officers suffer from trauma events, efforts on finding positive aspects of the trauma events and overcoming psychological instability are highly significant.
After all, further studies are needed to suggest helpful policy for facilitating police officers' post-traumatic growth through various ways, so it can assist police officers to stabilize their psychological condition and overcome post-traumatic stress disorder.

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