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

Armstrong, Deanne, Shakespeare-Finch, Jane, Shochet, Ian·2016·Psychological Trauma Theory Research Practice and Policy
DOI 10.1037/tra0000083
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RATIONALE: Previous research with emergency service workers has examined the relationship between operational and organizational stress and negative indicators of mental health, and generally found that organizational stress is more strongly related to pathology than operational stress. METHOD: The current study aimed to create and test a model predicting both posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms and posttraumatic growth (PTG) simultaneously in a sample of firefighters (N = 250). RESULTS: The results found that the model demonstrated good fit for the data. In contrast to previous research operational stress was directly related to PTSD symptoms, whereas organizational stress was not. Organizational stress was indirectly related to PTG, through the mediating role of organizational belongingness. CONCLUSION: This research identified organizational belongingness as a good target for psychosocial interventions aimed at promoting positive adaptation following the experience of trauma in emergency services. (PsycINFO Database Record

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  • Previous research has supported the use of the operational and organizational constructs in a wide variety of PSP occupations, including police, firefighters, paramedics, and corrections.

    “Previous research has supported the use of the operational and organizational constructs in a wide variety of PSP occupations, including police [13,28,29], firefighters [30], paramedics [31], and corrections [32].”

    From Assessing the Relative Impact of Diverse Stressors among Public Safety Personnel (2020) · cites this paper as [30]

  • The PSQ-Org and PSQ-Op items are not specific to policing and can apply to other PSP professionals; the scales have been used successfully with a wide range of PSP.

    “Despite the scale titles, none of the items are specific to policing, such that each item can apply to other PSP professionals; indeed, the scales have been used successfully with a wide range of PSP [28,29,30,31,32].”

    From Assessing the Relative Impact of Diverse Stressors among Public Safety Personnel (2020) · cites this paper as [30]

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Authors
Armstrong, D., Shakespeare-Finch, J., & Shochet, I.
Affiliations
Queensland University of Technology (AU)
ORCID
Venue
Psychological Trauma Theory Research Practice and Policy
Publisher
American Psychological Association (APA)
Published
2016
Volume
8
Issue
3
Pages
343-347
ISSN
  • 1942-9681 (ISSN-L)
  • 1942-969X
DOI
10.1037/tra0000083
OpenAlex
W2342799410
Cited by
47
References
23
Citations by year
2026: 3 · 2025: 8 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 5 · 2022: 8 · 2021: 4 · 2020: 8 · 2019: 4 · 2018: 2 · 2017: 1 · 2016: 2
FWCI
2.07
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Psychological Trauma Theory Research Practice and Policy (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research
  • Health Sciences › Health Professions › Occupational Therapy › Occupational Health and Performance
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Stress and Burnout Research
Keywords
firefighters, operational stress, organizational stress, post-traumatic stress disorder, posttraumatic growth, mediating effect, emergency workers, occupational injuries, psychosocial interventions
MeSH terms
Adaptation, Psychological, Adult, Humans, Male, Occupational Diseases, Personnel Loyalty, Social Identification, Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic, Firefighters

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