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Effects of Post Traumatic Growth of Firefighters -Focused on the D-city fire official-

  • Crisisonomy
  • Abbr : KRCEM
  • 2014, 10(10), pp.103-121
  • Publisher : Crisis and Emergency Management: Theory and Praxis
  • Research Area : Social Science > Public Policy > Public Policy in general

Hee Sook Kim 1,  남춘연 1,  이호진 1

1경북대학교

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ABSTRACT

Purpose: This study was conducted to identify the factors which influence on post traumatic growth of firefighters. Method: Participants in this study were firefighters from D city who were doing activities like extinguishing fire or rescuing sufferer at fire or accident scenes. Date was collected from January 13th to March 24th, in 2014. Research tools were post traumatic growth, problems-focused coping, communication ability, perception of job stress, self esteem. Data were analyzed , and included independent t-test, one-way ANOVA, and Scheffe post-hoc using SPSS IBM WIN 12.0. Pearson correlation coefficient and multiple regression by stepwise selection were also conducted to identify factors influencing post traumatic growth. Results: Post Traumatic Growth was positively correlated with problems-focused coping, communication ability, self esteem. Effective variables were problems-focused coping(β=.53, p<.000), communication ability(β=.19, p<.021), and job grade(β=-0.12, p=.002), sex(β=-0.11, p=.003). These variables explained 56% of the variance in post traumatic growth. Conclusions: The results suggest that it is needed to improve on problem-focused coping and communication ability for the post traumatic growth of firefighters.

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