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Social Threat-Safety Test Uncovers Psychosocial Stress-Related Phenotypes

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Resilience among first responders.

Luca Pietrantoni¹, Gabriele Prati

¹Department of Science of Education, University of Bologna, Italy. luca.pietrantoni@unibo.it

African Health Sciences

|March 31, 2011

Summary

First responders demonstrate resilience to critical events. Factors like self-efficacy, collective efficacy, and sense of community protect their mental health, reducing burnout and compassion fatigue.

Area of Science:

Occupational health
Psychology
Emergency services research

Background:

Emergency rescue personnel are a high-risk group.
Work-related exposures to critical incidents can lead to significant health and mental health consequences.

Purpose of the Study:

To examine resilience factors protecting mental health in first responders.
Identify key psychological elements that buffer against work-related stress.

Main Methods:

961 first responders completed an online questionnaire.
Measures included sense of community, collective efficacy, self-efficacy, compassion fatigue, burnout, and compassion satisfaction.

Main Results:

High compassion satisfaction and low burnout/compassion fatigue were reported.

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Published on: December 15, 2023

Self-efficacy predicted compassion fatigue and burnout.

Burnout was also predicted by collective efficacy and sense of community.

Compassion satisfaction was predicted by self-efficacy and sense of community.

Conclusions:

Resilience after critical events is prevalent among first responders.
Self-efficacy, collective efficacy, and sense of community are key resilience factors.
These factors help preserve first responders' work-related mental health.