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Policiais Militares que atuam nas ruas lidam com demandas emocionais da população, de suspeitos, criminosos e de vítimas e isso afeta o uso de estratégias de regulação emocional e o engajamento no trabalho. Este estudo testou a mediação da identidade profissional do PM na relação entre trabalho emocional (demandas e estratégias) e o engajamento. Participaram do estudo 302 policiais militares. Os instrumentos utilizados foram: Emotional Labour Scale, Emotion Work Requirements Scale, Utrecht Work Engagement Scale, e a Escala Trifatorial da Identidade Social. Os resultados apontaram que a identidade profissional medeia a relação entre as demandas de expressão de emoções positivas, ação profunda e ação superficial com o engajamento, confirmando as três hipóteses levantadas nesse estudo. Conclui-se que a identidade profissional pode funcionar como um recurso pessoal do PM com efeitos positivos no trabalho, quando o trabalhador tenta mudar seus sentimentos internos para atender demandas emocionais do público com quem interage.

The role of migration as a determinant in child mental health has been demonstrated in a number of studies. However, results are not always consistent, and the research continues to be scarce, especially in Portugal. We examined the association between sociodemographic profiles and the chance for the development of emotional and behavioral difficulties in a group of 420 children, immigrant (n = 217) and born in Portugal to Portuguese born parents (n = 203). We used a structured questionnaire to obtain sociodemographic information and the Strength and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ). Descriptive statistics were used to characterize children and their families, variables were compared between groups using the Chi-squared, Fisher&rsquo, s Exact Test, or the Mann&ndash, Whitney U test and logistic regression was used to analyze the association between socio-demographic factors and emotional and behavioral difficulties. Results showed a pattern of social and mental health inequalities with immigrant children at a disadvantage: they are more often part of families with low income and where parents had low skilled jobs. Internalizing behaviors are more frequent in immigrants than in children born in Portugal to Portuguese-born parents (p = 0.001) whereas a high total SDQ difficulties score (p = 0.039) and externalizing behaviors were more frequent in 1st generation immigrant children (p = 0.009). A low family income (aOR 4.5, 95% CI: 1.43&ndash, 13.95), low parental education level (aOR 2.5, 95% CI: 1.11&ndash, 5.16), and being a first-generation immigrant child (aOR 2.2, 95% CI: 1.06&ndash, 4.76) increased significantly the chance of developing emotional and behavioral difficulties. This study contributes to the identification of children vulnerable to mental health problems who can benefit from monitoring, early detection and preventive interventions in order to mitigate possible negative outcomes in the future.