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Reisi A, Fathi Ashtiani A, Salimi S H, Rabie M. Considering the General Health of Retired High Rank Police Officers and Providing Some Solutions to Reduce Their Psychological Problem during Retirement . J Police Med 2017; 5 (5)
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1- PhD student of Clinical Psychology, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
2- Professor of Research Center for Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Department of Clinical Psychology, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
3- 3Professor, Department of Clinical Psychology, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
4- 4Assistant Professor, Department of Clinical Psychology, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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Background: Retirement is concerned as an important transition playing an effective role in life on which has a signiificant influence. Retirment is usually alonge with anxiety and other psychological problems. The main aim of the present study was to compare the general health in the high rank police officers before and after retirement in order to provide the enhencement of health psychology of the police officers.

Materials and Methods: Statistical population of the study consisted of all the high rank police officers occupied at the latest two years of their careers and also the high rank police officers who had been retired during the recent four years among which 120 retired and 50 would-be retired police officers were selected through Convenience Sampling method and filled the questionnaire of GHQ. Data were analyzed by Manova and other statistical methods.

Results: Results revealed that the group of officers who were going to retire in the next two years significatly showed higher scores than both gorups of retired officers (with and without jobs) in GHQ. It indicated that the group of officers who were going to retire in the next two years was healthlier than the two other groups.

Conclusion: According to the findings, it can be concluded that having a job may preserve health psychology of individuals who come to retire and prevent them from negative effects of retirement in high rank police offices.

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Article Type: Original Research | Subject: Police Health
Received: 2016/07/22 | Accepted: 2017/01/5 | Published: 2017/01/5

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