Firefighters: Hostility and world assumptions

Firefighters: Hostility and world assumptions

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The present project was intended to provide an initial exploratory investigation into the relationship between hostility and world assumptions for a firefighting sample.Specifically, we hypothesized that increased hostility would be associated with more negative assumptions with respect to world benevolence, world justness, and self-worth, and that these variables would also be related to years of service and self-reported mental health.The current study was part of a larger study with firefighters from British Columbia, copyright, and included 186 paid-professional firefighters who completed a series of questionnaires.We demonstrated Quo Vadis, Homo Viator? / Journeys in Jože Hradil’s Faceless Pictures that, for our firefighting sample, hostility was related to both world benevolence and self-worth across multiple measures, even while controlling for the individual characteristic neuroticism.We did not find any significant relationship with years of service, but world benevolence and self-worth were also important in the prediction of mental health outcomes.

These findings may have clinical or occupational intervention implications in A Guide to Opportunities and Challenges of Developing a Virtual Reality Simulation for Disaster Medicine Courses: A Letter to Editor therapeutic relationships with firefighters, in that the present project demonstrated a first indication that reduced hostility in combination with increased positivity in world assumptions may help achieve good mental health.