Relationship between mental health and coping style among prison police women

Objective To examine the relationship between prison police women's mental health and their coping style.Methods By random sampling,128 police women were administered with Symptom Checklist-90(SCL-90) and Coping Style Questionnaire.Results There were significant higher scores for somatization(1.68±0.04),depression(1.77±0.05),anxiety(1.60±0.04),hostility(1.68±0.05),phobia(1.32±0.02),psychoticism(1.47±0.03),and additional-items(1.76±0.05) among the police women compared with the norm of Chinese.There were significant positive correlations between self-blame,fantasy,avoidance and all factors of SCL-90(P < 0.01 for all).There were significant positive correlations between rationalization and obsessive-compulsive,interpersonal sensitivity,depression,anxiety,hostility,and paranoid(P < 0.01 or P < 0.05).There were significant negative correlations between solving the problem and obsessive-compulsive,interpersonal sensitivity,depression,hostility,paranoid,and psychoticism(P < 0.01 or P < 0.05).There was a significant negative correlation between assistance and paranoid(P < 0.01).Conclusion The prison police women's mental health level was lower than the norm of national adults.Mature coping style is beneficial for maitaining mental health.