{
  "creator": [
    "Rojas, Roberto",
    "Hickmann, Maxi",
    "Wolf, Svenja",
    "Kolassa, Iris-Tatjana",
    "Behnke, Alexander"
  ],
  "date": [
    "2022-03-31"
  ],
  "description": [
    "Background: Emergency Medical Services personnel (EMSP) are recurrently exposed to chronic and traumatic stressors in their occupation. Effective coping with occupational stressors plays a key role in enabling their health and overall well-being. In this study, we examined the habitual use of coping strategies in EMSP and analyzed associations of coping with the personnel’s health and well-being. Method: A total of N = 106 German Red Cross EMSP participated in a cross-sectional survey involving standardized questionnaires to report habitual use of different coping strategies (using the Brief-COPE), their work-related stress, work-related self-efficacy, job satisfaction, as well as mental and physical stress symptoms. Results: A confirmatory factor analysis corroborated seven coping factors which have been identified in a previous study among Italian emergency workers. Correlation analyses indicated the coping factor “self-criticism” is associated with more work-related stress, lower job satisfaction, and higher depressive, posttraumatic, and physical stress symptoms. Although commonly viewed as adaptive coping, the coping factors “support/venting”, “active coping/planning”, “humor”, “religion”, and “positive reappraisal” were not related to health and well-being in EMSP. Exploratory correlation analyses suggested that only “acceptance” was linked to better well-being and self-efficacy in EMSP. Conclusion: Our results emphasize the need for in-depth investigation of adaptive coping in EMSP to advance occupation-specific prevention measures."
  ],
  "format": [
    "application/pdf",
    "text/html",
    "text/xml"
  ],
  "identifier": [
    "https://cpe.psychopen.eu/index.php/cpe/article/view/6133",
    "10.32872/cpe.6133"
  ],
  "language": [
    "eng"
  ],
  "publisher": [
    "PsychOpen GOLD / Leibniz Institut for Psychology (ZPID)"
  ],
  "relation": [
    "https://cpe.psychopen.eu/index.php/cpe/article/view/6133/6133.pdf",
    "https://cpe.psychopen.eu/index.php/cpe/article/view/6133/6133.html",
    "https://cpe.psychopen.eu/index.php/cpe/article/view/6133/7683"
  ],
  "rights": [
    "Copyright (c) 2022 Roberto Rojas, Maxi Hickmann, Svenja Wolf, Iris-Tatjana Kolassa, Alexander Behnke",
    "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0"
  ],
  "source": [
    "Clinical Psychology in Europe; Vol. 4 No. 1 (2022); 1-25",
    "2625-3410",
    "10.32872/cpe.v4i1"
  ],
  "subject": [
    "Emergency Medical Services",
    "coping strategies",
    "stress",
    "job satisfaction",
    "work-related self-efficacy"
  ],
  "title": [
    "Coping in the Emergency Medical Services: Associations With the Personnel’s Stress, Self-Efficacy, Job Satisfaction, and Health"
  ],
  "type": [
    "info:eu-repo/semantics/article",
    "info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion"
  ]
}