The Firefighter Coping Self-Efficacy Scale: Measure development and validation

Anxiety, Stress and Coping

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 79-91

  Lambert, Jessica E ^a   Benight, Charles C ^a   Harrison, Erica ^a   Cieslak, Roman ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b SWPS UNIVERSITY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES   (Poland)

Author keywords

coping; firefighters; self efficacy; social cognitive theory; trauma; work related stress

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; AFFECT; ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FIRE FIGHTER; HUMAN; JOB SATISFACTION; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL STRESS; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STANDARD; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION; VALIDATION STUDY; WORK;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AFFECT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; FIREFIGHTERS; HUMANS; JOB SATISFACTION; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SELF EFFICACY; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOUTHWESTERN UNITED STATES; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; URBAN POPULATION; WORK;

EID: 84859097386     PISSN: 10615806     EISSN: 14772205     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10615806.2011.567328     Document Type: Article

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