Female Moscow Police Officers’ Emotional Reactions Features during Service in the COVID-19 Pandemic Emergency Conditions

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic was an extreme situation that had a traumatic impact on psychosocial groups that performed their official duties in contact with the infected and sick, including in the gender aspect. Police officers were widely involved in anti-epidemic measures to protect order and citizens safety during the COVID-19 pandemic. The aim of the study is to identify the emotional reactions features in female police officers - the Moscow police employees, carrying serving as public order guards in the COVID-19 pandemic emergency conditions. It is shown that female police officers, in contrast to male police officers, in emergency conditions of the COVID-19 pandemic, showed greater neuro-psychic adaptability to stressful situations, despite increased situational and personal anxiety. When serving in crowded places, they showed anxiety not about their own health, but because of fears about the relatives possibility infecting. It is shown that it is expedient to develop differentiated psychosocial support personality-oriented programs for police officers, taking into account gender characteristics during medical and biological emergencies.

Exploration of individual and work-related impacts on police officers and police staff working in support or front-line roles during the UK’s first COVID lockdown

“…Research on police workers working through COVID-19 is gaining momentum across many disciplines and countries. Bio-medical scholars have looked at the traumatic impact of the pandemic on female police officers in Moscow (Soloviev et al, 2020). Medicine and health professionals consider police working in an ‘unprecedented medical health emergency’ (Papazoglou et al, 2020: 39).…”

A COVID-19 járvány hatásai a nőkre, a rendőrség női munkatársaira

“…A rendőrség kötelékében szolgáló nők járvány alatti tevékenységében is megnyilvánul a nőkre oly jellemző önzetlenség és gondoskodás attitűdje. Egy, a moszkvai rendőrnők körében végzett kutatás adatai szerint (Soloviev & Zhernov, 2020) a tömegrendezvényen szolgálatot teljesítő rendőrnők 76%-a nem a saját egészsége miatt aggódott, hanem azért, mert fertőződése esetén rokonait, hozzátartozóit továbbfertőzheti. Annak ellenére, hogy a vizsgálatban részt vevő rendőrnők több, mint a fele mutatta a depresszió jeleit, mégis stresszes szituációban jobb neuropszichikai adaptációval, eredményesebben kezelték a helyzetet.…”