Stress and coping strategies among firefighters and recruits

Journal of Loss and Trauma

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 548-560

  Chamberlin, Michael J A ^a,b   Green, Heather J ^a  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Queensland Fire and Rescue Service   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 78149393199     PISSN: 15325024     EISSN: 15325032     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15325024.2010.519275     Document Type: Article

References (31)

1. Beaton, R., Murphy, S., Johnson, C., Pike, K., & Corneil, W. (1999). Coping responses and posttraumatic stress symptomatology in urban fire service personnel. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 12, 293-308.
2. Brown, J., Mulhern, G., & Joseph, S. A. (2002). Incident-related stressors, locus of control, coping, and psychological distress among firefighters in Northern Ireland. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 15, 161-168.
3. Bryant, R. A., & Guthrie, R. M. (2005). Maladaptive appraisals as a risk factor for post-traumatic stress: A study of trainee firefighters. Psychological Science, 16, 749-752.
4. Bryant, R. A., & Guthrie, R. M. (2007). Maladaptive self-appraisals before trauma exposure predict posttraumatic stress disorder. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 75, 812-815.
5. Carver, C. S. (1997). You want to measure coping but your protocol's too long: Consider the Brief COPE. International Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 4, 92-100.
6. Carver, C. S., Scheier, M. F., & Weintraub, J. K. (1989). Assessing coping strategies: A theoretically based approach. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 56, 267-283.
7. Chang, C.-M., Lee, L.-C., Connor, K. M., Davidson, J. R. T., Jeffries, K., & Lai, T.-J. (2003). Posttraumatic distress and coping strategies among rescue workers after an earthquake. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 191, 391-398.
8. Corneil, W., Beaton, R., Murphy, S., Johnson, C., & Pike, K. (1999). Exposure to traumatic incidents and prevalence of posttraumatic stress symptomatology in urban firefighters in two countries. Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, 4,131-141.
9. Creamer, M., Bell, R., & Failla, S. (2003). Psychometric properties of the Impact of Event Scale-Revised. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 41, 1489-1496.
10. Dean, P. G., Gow, K. M., & Shakespeare-Finch, J. E. (2003). Counting the cost: Psychological distress in career and auxiliary firefighters. Australasian Journal of Disaster and Trauma Studies, 1. Retrieved from http://www.massey.ac.nz/~trauma/issues/2003-1/dean.htm
11. Gavranidou, M., & Rosner, R. (2003). The weaker sex? Gender and post-traumatic stress disorder. Depression and Anxiety, 17, 130-139.
12. Goldberg, D. P., Gater, R., Sartorius, N., Ustun, T. B., Piccinelli, M., Gureje, O., et al. (1997). The validity of two versions of the GHQ in the WHO study of mental illness in general health care. Psychological Medicine, 27, 191-197.
13. Goldberg, D. P., & Williams, P. (1988). A user's guide to the General Health Questionnaire. Windsor, UK: NFER.
14. Guthrie, R. M., & Bryant, R. A. (2005). Auditory startle response in firefighters before and after trauma exposure. American Journal of Psychiatry, 162, 283-290.
15. Haslam, C., & Mallon, K. (2003). A preliminary investigation of post-traumatic stress symptoms among firefighters. Work & Stress, 17, 277-285.
16. Heinrichs, M., Wagner, D., Schoch, W., Soravia, L. M., Hellhammer, D. H., & Ehlert, U. (2005). Predicting posttraumatic stress symptoms from pretraumatic risk factors: A 2-year prospective follow-up study in firefighters. American Journal of Psychiatry, 162, 2276-2286.
17. Korten, A., & Henderson, S. (2000). The Australian National Survey of Mental Health and Well-Being: Common psychological symptoms and disablement. British Journal of Psychiatry, 177, 325-330.
18. McFarlane, A. C., & Bryant, R. A. (2007). Post-traumatic stress disorder in occupational settings: Anticipating and managing the risk. Occupational Medicine, 57,404-410.
19. McKenzie, D. P., Ikin, J. F., McFarlane, A. C., Creamer, M., Forbes, A. B., Kelsall, H. L., et al. (2004). Psychological health of Australian veterans of the 1991 Gulf War: An assessment using the SF-12, GHQ-12 and PCL-S. Psychological Medicine, 34, 1419-1430.
20. oran, C. C. (1998). Stress and emergency work experience: A non-linear relationship. Disaster Prevention and Management, 7, 38-46.
21. Moran, C. C., & Britton, N. R. (1994). Emergency work experience and reactions to traumatic incidents. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 7, 575-585.
22. Moran, C. C., & Colless, E. (1995). Positive reactions following emergency and disaster responses. Disaster Prevention and Management, 4, 55-60.
23. Perrin, M. A., DiGrande, L., Wheeler, K., Thorpe, L., Farfel, M., & Brackbill, R. (2007). Differences in PTSD prevalence and associated risk factors among World Trade Center disaster rescue and recovery workers. American Journal of Psychiatry, 164,1385-1394.
24. Raphael, B., Lundin, T., & McFarlane, C. (1989). A research method for the study of psychological and psychiatric aspects of disaster. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 80(Suppl. 353), 1-75.
25. Regehr, C., Hill, J., & Glancy, G. D. (2000). Individual predictors of traumatic reactions in firefighters. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 188, 333-339.
26. Regehr, C., Hill, J., Knott, T., & Sault, B. (2003). Social support, self-efficacy and trauma in new recruits and experienced firefighters. Stress and Health: Journal of the International Society for the Investigation of Stress, 19, 189-193.
27. Smith, R. P., Katz, C. L., Holmes, A., Herbert, R., Levin, S., Moline, J., et al. (2005). Mental health status of World Trade Center rescue and recovery workers and volunteers-New York City, July 2002-August 2004. Journal of the American Medical Association, 293, 30-31.
28. Tabachnick, B. G., & Fidell, L. S. (1989). Using multivariate statistics (2nd ed.). New York: HarperCollins.
29. Wagner, D., Heinrichs, M., & Ehlert, U. (1998). Prevalence of symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder in German professional firefighters. American Journal of Psychiatry, 155, 1727-1732.
30. Weiss, D. S. (2004). The Impact of Event Scale-Revised. In J. P. Wilson & T. M. Keane (Eds.), Assessing psychological trauma and PTSD (2nd ed., pp. 168-189). New York: Guilford Press.
31. Welte, J. W., & Russell, M. (1993). Influence of socially desirable responding in a study of stress and substance abuse. Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research, 17, 758-761.