Organizational belongingness mediates the relationship between sources of stress and posttrauma outcomes in firefighters

Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 343-347

  Armstrong, Deanne ^a,b   Shakespeare Finch, Jane ^a   Shochet, Ian ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Firefighters; Occupational stress; Organizational belongingness; Posttraumatic growth; Posttraumatic stress

Indexed keywords

ADULT; COPING BEHAVIOR; FIRE FIGHTER; HUMAN; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; FIREFIGHTERS; HUMANS; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; PERSONNEL LOYALTY; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 84946434197     PISSN: 19429681     EISSN: 1942969X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/tra0000083     Document Type: Article

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