Coping responses and posttraumatic stress symptomatology in urban fire service personnel

Emergency workers, including urban fire fighters and paramedics, must cope with a variety of duty‐related stressors including traumatic incident exposures. Little is known about coping responses of emergency workers or whether their coping responses predict future mental health outcomes. The previou...

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Published in:Journal of traumatic stress 1999-04, Vol.12 (2), p.293-308
Main Authors: Beaton, Randal, Murphy, Shirley, Johnson, Clark, Pike, Ken, Corneil, Wayne
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adaptation, Psychological
Adult
Adult and adolescent clinical studies
Allied Health Personnel
Anxiety disorders. Neuroses
Biological and medical sciences
Coping
coping strategies
duty-related incident exposures
emergency workers
Fire Fighters
Fires
Follow-Up Studies
Humans
Measures (Instruments)
Medical sciences
Occupational Diseases - diagnosis
Occupational Exposure - adverse effects
Post-traumatic stress disorder
posttraumatic stress
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
Rescue Work
Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic - diagnosis
Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic - psychology
Time Factors
Urban Population
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Summary:Emergency workers, including urban fire fighters and paramedics, must cope with a variety of duty‐related stressors including traumatic incident exposures. Little is known about coping responses of emergency workers or whether their coping responses predict future mental health outcomes. The previously formulated Coping Responses of Rescue Workers Inventory (CRRWI) underwent a principal components analysis employing a sample (N = 220) of urban fire fighters and paramedics. Six empirically and theoretically distinct CRRWI components were identified which were relatively stable over a 6‐month period. Scores on one of the CRRWI scales, but neither years of service nor their past half year's traumatic incident exposures, predicted future changes in self‐reports of posttraumatic stress symptomatology.
ISSN:0894-9867
1573-6598
DOI:10.1023/A:1024776509667