Abstract
Some authors have pointed out that the
individuals with resistant personality deal with stressful situations in
an active and committed way, perceiving them as less threatening. Also,
we know that stress acts as a mediator in the predisposition,
precipitation or exacerbation of the disease. Emergency services
professionals are often confronted with numerous critical incidents that
are likely to break into their lives and cause them to suffer, often
because of their surprising nature. The traumatic experience is pointed
out as one of the most revealing sources of deep discomfort. The aim of
this study is to determine if the resistant personality or hardiness
plays a role as a modulator of the stress experience and, more
specifically, the development of posttraumatic stress. To this end, we
evaluated a sample of firefighters, who were surprised by the fire in an
entrapment situation during the extinction of a forest fire in the
province of Alicante (Spain) and that had a fatal outcome for some of
the emergency device personnel. The results indicate that 37.5% of the
sample developed posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) at the clinical
level after the month of the incident and 25% some type of posttraumatic
symptomatology (PTSD sub-syndrome); the remaining 37.5% were not
emotionally affected by that stress experience. On the other hand, the
dispersion analysis shows a tendency to the appearance of PTSD as the
hardiness decreases (figure 1). These results support the idea that
resistant personality can play a modulating role in the development of
emotional trauma. The dimensions of the construct, implication and
challenge, seem to have a greater role in this stress modulating
process, being the influence of control more contained. In the
discussion, emphasis is given on the need for specialized evaluation and
follow up after the experience of a critical incident of these
characteristics, as well as the design of training actions aimed at the
development of knowledge, skills, abilities and psychological skills in
professionals belonging to the different emergency services, and more
specifically, firefighters.
https://www.omicsonline.org/proceedings/modulating-effect-of-hardiness-in-the-development-of-emotional-trauma-in-firefighters-trapped-in-forest-fire-85033.html
4th International Conference on Mental Health and Human Resilience
Cita: Senabre, J. (2018). Modulating effect of hardiness in the development of emotional trauma in firefighters trapped in forest fire. In International Journal of Emergency Mental Health and Human Resilience 2018, Volume 20, pp 52. DOI: 10.4172/1522-4821-C1-011. ISSN: 1522-4821.
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