The authors designed a study to identify which factors associated with law enforcement officers had predictive value in the level of stigma perceived in seeking mental health treatment by currently employed, certified peace officers in Arizona. The factors included in this study were sex, age, race and ethnicity, years employed as an officer, size of the department, current rank or position within the department, the type of government operating the agency, and payment of union dues. The study included 454 participants who completed an anonymous, online survey in which they provided demographic data and completed the following measures: the Self-Stigma of Seeking Psychological Help (SSOSH) and the Perceptions of Stigmatization by Others for Seeking Help (PSOSH).1 The SSOSH and the PSOSH are Likert-scaled measures. A standard multiple regression design was used to analyze the data.
