The Job-Related Stress Factors and Effects Regarding the Law Enforcement and Military Professions

Abstract

What comes to our mind from the word stress? In most cases a tension as bad experience, a frustration generating negative effect. The stress is part of our everyday life, the natural level of which is vital for us, it is the source of our motivation and our creative  energy. It is one of the definitive conditions for staying alive, because of the immediate sensation and recognition of danger. As a remnant of the evolutional development, there comes an instinctive quick reaction on the chances, which results in the birth of the ‘flight’ or ‘fight’ decision. During this time the individual decides that he or she will evade the sensed danger or looks into its eye. Think about the fauna! In our civilised life, we, too, fight every day for our (quality of) lives, more so in specified professions, where there are situations in case of which the fight for life can be taken literally, for example in the case of the military and law enforcement personnel: soldiers, policemen and firefighters.