Perceived Self-efficacy during an Emergency Situation Reduces Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms
| Autor: | Lola Vallès, Carles Pérez-Testor, Ed L. B. Hilterman, Malin Roiha, Elisa Saccinto, Luca Pietrantoni |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Saccinto E., Valles L., Hilterman E, Roiha M, Pietrantoni L., Perez-Testor C |
| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
| Předmět: |
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Male Health Knowledge Attitudes Practice Linguistics and Language Adolescent Poison control Severity of Illness Index Suicide prevention Language and Linguistics Occupational safety and health Life Change Events Stress Disorders Post-Traumatic Young Adult Sex Factors Severity of illness Injury prevention Humans Survivors General Psychology Aged Retrospective Studies Aged 80 and over Self-efficacy Human factors and ergonomics SELF-EFFICACY Middle Aged EMERGENCY Self Efficacy humanities Risk perception Italy Spain posttraumatic stress disorder Female Psychology Social psychology Clinical psychology |
| Zdroj: | Scopus-Elsevier |
| ISSN: | 1988-2904 1138-7416 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/sjp.2013.56 |
| Popis: | This study investigates if perceived self-efficacy during an emergency situation has a protective role in the development of posttraumatic stress symptoms among Italian and Spanish survivors of several emergency situations. We explored the impact of self-efficacy in a multiple regression model including other predictors of posttraumatic stress symptoms, such as emergency prevention knowledge; trust in emergency services; risk perception of becoming a victim of an emergency situation; and conscious and active behaviors in comparison with no conscious and no active behavior during the emergency. We carried out a retrospective study recruiting 214 participants who reported their experience as victims of one specific emergency event. Results showed that survivors who perceived themselves as more self-efficacious during the traumatic event had less posttraumatic stress symptoms. In contrast, female gender, more self-threat perception and higher trauma severity were associated with more symptoms. Findings contribute to better understand human behavior in emergency situations and evidence the protective role of perceived self-efficacy beliefs among survivors of emergency situations. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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