Cited by 130Mindfulness and Compassion InterventionsStress and Burnout ResearchResilience and Mental Health

Role of Resilience in Mindfulness Training for First Responders

Open access
Kaplan, Joshua Benjamin, Bergman, Aaron L., Christopher, Michael, Bowen, Sarah, Hunsinger, Matthew·2017·Mindfulness

Abstract

First responders are exposed to critical incidents and chronic stressors that contribute to a higher prevalence of negative health outcomes compared to other occupations. Psychological resilience, a learnable process of positive adaptation to stress, has been identified as a protective factor against the negative impact of burnout. Mindfulness-Based Resilience Training (MBRT) is a preventive intervention tailored for first responders to reduce negative health outcomes, such as burnout. This study is a secondary analysis of law enforcement and firefighters samples to examine the mechanistic role of psychological resilience on burnout. Results indicated that changes in resilience partially mediated the relationship between mindfulness and burnout, and that increased mindfulness was related to increased resilience (b = .41, SE = .11, p < .01), which in turn was related to decreased burnout (b = -.25, SE = .12, p = .03). The bootstrapped confidence interval of the indirect effect did not contain zero [95% CI; -.27, -.01], providing evidence for mediation. Limitations and implications are discussed.

The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.

Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.

A few free checks a day · papers already verified open instantly · results are public

Integrity signals

Registry

Crossref · 10.1007/s12671-017-0713-2

Cites

94 of 94 references verified0 citation errors · 0 not checkable

Statistics

Claims the paper makes

The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.

Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.

A few free checks a day · papers already verified open instantly · results are public

Claims other papers make about this one

Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?

  • Mindfulness-based interventions are feasible and lead to improved health outcomes among several high-stress populations, such as military personnel, physicians, firefighters, and inner-city teachers.

    “MBIs have been shown to be feasible and to lead to improved health outcomes among several high-stress populations, such as military personnel [32, 33], physicians [34, 35], firefighters [36], and inner-city teachers [37].”

    From Study protocol of a multicenter randomized controlled trial of mindfulness training to reduce burnout and promote quality of life in police officers: The POLICE study (2018) · cites this paper as [36]

    For the firefighter citation, the Method describes firefighters taking part in mindfulness-based resilience training, and the Results report significant pre-to-post improvements across the measured variables in both firefighters and law-enforcement officers. This supports the feasibility and observed health-outcome improvement, but the Discussion says the study had no control group and cannot establish causality; it does not show that the intervention led to those improvements. (LLM, conf=0.86)

    Experimental — accuracy not yet measured

Self-check

Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.

The self-check needs the paper’s full text.

Cites

Flagged first, then by citations

2 of the 96 references couldn’t be matched to a known paper.

Research works printed but not linked: 5

  1. Goerling RJ (2012). Police officer resilience and community building. Proceedings of the American Society of Business and Behavioral Sciences 19: 394– 397.
  2. Meredith LS, Sherbourne CD, & Gaillot SJ (2011) Promoting psychological resilience in the US military: Rand Corporation. PMC4945176 28083176
  3. Ranta RS (2009). Management of stress and coping behaviour of police personnel through Indian psychological techniques. Journal of the Indian Academy of Applied Psychology 35(1): 47– 53.
  4. Sack RE III. (2009). Rethinking use of force: A correlational study of burnout and aggression in patrol officers. PhD dissertation. Alliant International University. (ID 305175076).
  5. Shipley P, & Branski JV (2002). Police officer performance under stress: A pilot study on the effects of visuo-motor behavior rehearsal. International Journal of Stress Management 9(2): 71– 80.

Cited by

Sorted by citations

Authors
Kaplan, J. B., Bergman, A. L., Christopher, M., Bowen, S., & Hunsinger, M.
Affiliations
Pacific University Oregon (US)
Venue
Mindfulness
Published
2017-04-19
Volume
8
Issue
5
Pages
1373-1380
ISSN
  • 1868-8527 (ISSN-L)
  • 1868-8535
OpenAlex
W2605947879
Cited by
130
References
96
Citations by year
2026: 10 · 2025: 10 · 2024: 15 · 2023: 20 · 2022: 21 · 2021: 18 · 2020: 13 · 2019: 14 · 2018: 9
FWCI
12.21
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Mindfulness (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
Funders
National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (R21AT008854)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Stress and Burnout Research
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Resilience and Mental Health
Keywords
psychological resilience, burnout, first responders, law enforcement, firefighters, occupational stress, critical incidents, mediation, secondary analysis

About these checks

Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.

Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.

Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.

What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›

Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review