How Levels of Resilience Inform Help-Seeking Behaviors in Firefighters
Disciplines
Clinical Psychology | Cognitive Psychology | Industrial and Organizational Psychology
Abstract (300 words maximum)
This study looks into the mental health of firefighters to determine if a connection exists between how the level of emotional and mental resiliency informs the completion of help-seeking behaviors. This is significant as mental resiliency plays a key role in how firefighters perceive stressful situations and whether or not they perform help-seeking behaviors. As these individuals work in high-risk occupations, it is important to understand if those with higher levels of resilience do not feel the need to perform help-seeking behaviors as they feel they can support themselves. Issues that prevent the completion of help-seeking behaviors can lead to poor coping methods and the development of trauma-related mental disorders. Surveys will be given to currently employed firefighters in Cobb County, Georgia. Convenience and snowball sampling will be utilized to recruit survey participants and SPSS Statistics software will be used to examine and interpret the data. Data has not been collected yet but will be by the time the Symposium takes place. The impact of this study will be the gathering of useful knowledge to determine if those with high levels of resilience do not feel the need to perform help-seeking behaviors to better determine the overall utilization of these behaviors.
Academic department under which the project should be listed
WCHHS - Health Promotion and Physical Education
Primary Investigator (PI) Name
Afekwo Mary Ukuku
How Levels of Resilience Inform Help-Seeking Behaviors in Firefighters
This study looks into the mental health of firefighters to determine if a connection exists between how the level of emotional and mental resiliency informs the completion of help-seeking behaviors. This is significant as mental resiliency plays a key role in how firefighters perceive stressful situations and whether or not they perform help-seeking behaviors. As these individuals work in high-risk occupations, it is important to understand if those with higher levels of resilience do not feel the need to perform help-seeking behaviors as they feel they can support themselves. Issues that prevent the completion of help-seeking behaviors can lead to poor coping methods and the development of trauma-related mental disorders. Surveys will be given to currently employed firefighters in Cobb County, Georgia. Convenience and snowball sampling will be utilized to recruit survey participants and SPSS Statistics software will be used to examine and interpret the data. Data has not been collected yet but will be by the time the Symposium takes place. The impact of this study will be the gathering of useful knowledge to determine if those with high levels of resilience do not feel the need to perform help-seeking behaviors to better determine the overall utilization of these behaviors.