The Intrinsic Association of Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms Among Chinese Police Officers During COVID-19: Evidence From Network Perspective

IF 2.5 3区心理学 Q2 PSYCHOLOGY, CLINICAL

Journal of Clinical Psychology Pub Date : 2025-03-25 DOI:10.1002/jclp.23787

Jialu Jin, Yuanyuan An, Xiaohui Li, Di An

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Abstract

Background

The current study aimed to identify the core posttraumatic stress symptoms (PTSS) and to explore the longitudinal predictive relationships of these symptoms among Chinese police officers during COVID-19. Identifying the important symptoms of PTSS could help with informing future research to alleviate police officers' psychological problems.

Methods

In this study, a two-wave on-line investigation (4 months interval; T1 and T2) was conducted with a sample of 891 Chinese police officers who completed the Chinese version of PTSD Checklist for DSM-5 (PCL-5). Cross-sectional network and cross-lagged panel network (CLPN) analyses were adopted.

Results

The results showed that: (1) The most central nodes all belonged to the hyper-arousal and the negative cognition and emotion alteration clusters in both T1 and T2. (2) The strongest positive predictive paths were apparent from symptoms in hyper-arousal cluster to symptoms in negative cognition and emotion alteration cluster and intrusions cluster.

Conclusions

Hyperarousal is the core symptom cluster among police officers during COVID-19, and it positively predict negative cognition and emotion alteration symptoms and intrusions symptoms over time. Future research could focus more on these symptoms and examine their role in the onset and development of PTSS in police officers following traumatic events.

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背景：本研究旨在识别核心创伤后应激症状（PTSS），并探讨这些症状在COVID-19期间中国警察中的纵向预测关系。识别创伤后应激障碍的重要症状有助于为未来的研究提供信息，以减轻警察的心理问题。方法：本研究采用两波在线调查(间隔4个月；T1和T2)以891名完成DSM-5中文版PTSD检查表（PCL-5）的中国警察为样本进行。采用横截面网络和交叉滞后面板网络（CLPN）分析。结果：结果表明：(1)T1和T2的大部分中心节点均属于超唤醒和负性认知和情绪改变簇。(2)从超唤醒类症状到负性认知和情绪改变类症状和侵入类症状的正向预测路径最强。结论：过度觉醒是新冠肺炎期间警务人员的核心症状群，并随时间推移正向预测负性认知、情绪改变症状和侵入症状。未来的研究可以更多地关注这些症状，并检查它们在创伤事件后警察ptsd的发生和发展中的作用。

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Journal of Clinical Psychology PSYCHOLOGY, CLINICAL-

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5.40

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3.30%

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177

期刊介绍： Founded in 1945, the Journal of Clinical Psychology is a peer-reviewed forum devoted to research, assessment, and practice. Published eight times a year, the Journal includes research studies; articles on contemporary professional issues, single case research; brief reports (including dissertations in brief); notes from the field; and news and notes. In addition to papers on psychopathology, psychodiagnostics, and the psychotherapeutic process, the journal welcomes articles focusing on psychotherapy effectiveness research, psychological assessment and treatment matching, clinical outcomes, clinical health psychology, and behavioral medicine.