The Determinants of hygiene-related stress among front-line armed police officers in China

• In Event: Police Stress: Domestic and International Explorations

Abstract

Research on police officers stress often focused on work-related stress, and there is a paucity of study that specially examines hygiene-related stress due to personal and family issues. As one of the major law enforcement agencies, armed police forces undertake the responsibility of security and stability in boarder and coastal areas in China. Most of these areas are comparatively less-developed and remote areas in the country. Due to several dynamic factors such as lack of sufficient logistics, jurisdictions comprising heterogeneous populations and assignment far away from hometowns, it seems reasonable to believe that armed police officers to suffer more hygiene-related stress. Based on a recent survey of Chinese armed police officers, this study explores the determinants of hygiene-related stress among armed police officers serving active duty in police substations that are located in ethnically-populated border areas of China. The findings can shed light on armed police officers' stress in China.

Authors

• Huixia Huang, Chinese People's Armed Police Forces Academy

• Jihong Solomon Zhao, Sam Houston State University