소방공무원들에서 긍정심리적 특성이 외상사건 경험 이후 외상후 스트레스 증상 발생에 미치는 영향

• 영문명: The Effect of Positive Psychological Characteristics on Post-Traumatic Stress Symptoms after Traumatic Experiences in Firefighters
• 발행기관: 대한신경정신의학회
• 저자명: 박은진 김경의 백현숙 유제춘 최경숙
• 간행물 정보: 『신경정신의학』제49권 제6호, 645~652쪽, 전체 8쪽
• 주제분류: 의약학 > 정신과학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2010.11.30

영문 초록

Objectives The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of positive psychological char-acteristics on posttraumatic stress symptoms after traumatic experiences. Methods The subjects were 97 firefighters (83 males and 14 females), who completed the Life Events Scale, the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale, the Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale, and the Im-pact of Event Scale-Revised Korean version. Pearson product-moment correlation coefficients were computed to examine the relationships among the variables, and Structural Equation Modeling was used to investigate the mediation process in the relationships among traumatic experiences, positive psychological characteristics, and posttraumatic stress. Results The results showed that self-esteem had a mediating effect on the relationship between traumatic experiences and posttraumatic stress symptoms. Traumatic experiences affected posttraumatic stress symptoms not only directly, but also through self-esteem to posttraumatic stress symptoms. Therefore the lower firefighters’ self-esteem was, the more posttraumatic stress symptoms occurred. Resilience, however, apparently had no function as mediating variable in the relationship between traumatic experiences and posttraumatic stress symptoms. Traumatic experiences and resilience each seemed to affect posttraumatic stress symptoms directly. Hence, the lower firefighters’ resilience was, the more posttraumatic stress symptoms occurred. Conclusion This study showed that self-esteem had a mediating effect on the relationship between traumatic experiences and posttraumatic stress symptoms. We also found that resilience affects posttraumatic stress symptoms directly, regardless of the number of traumatic experiences. Likewise, these results showed that we should be concerned in positive psychological characteristics such as self-esteem and resilience in order to prevent posttraumatic stress symptoms.

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Self-esteem Resilience Posttraumatic stress symptoms Firefighter