Survey on Police Stressors, Coping, and Mental Health in Catalonia

A 2026 survey of 741 police officers from Catalonia, Spain, conducted by Ana F. Moreno. The data includes responses on clinical symptoms, operational and organizational stressors, and coping styles, collected via an online survey using DASS-21, PSQ-Op, PSQ-Org, and Brief COPE instruments.

Use Cases

• Modeling predictors of burnout and PTSD based on reported operational and organizational stressors.
• Analyzing gender differences in coping strategies, as the description notes female officers reported higher adaptive coping.
• Investigating the relationship between years of service and anxiety symptoms or active coping strategy use.
• Evaluating the protective role of problem-focused coping against depression, as suggested in the results.

Strengths

• Includes responses from 741 police officers, providing a substantive sample size.
• Measures multiple psychological constructs: clinical symptoms (stress, anxiety, depression), specific stressors, and coping styles.
• Data collection used validated instruments (DASS-21, PSQ-Op, PSQ-Org, Brief COPE).

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data is limited to police forces in Catalonia, Spain, which may limit generalizability.

Provenance

Source

Ana F. Moreno via figshare.

Collection Method

Data was gathered via an online survey completed by police officers.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-21 05:35:19; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Catalonia, Spain.