The influences of firefighters' personality traits on job burnout: Using post-traumatic stress disorder as a mediator

Building Resilience in Firefighters: A Systematic Review

“…Another study (14) investigated firefighters' competency using the WAI tool among Iranian firefighters. However, this tool is not specifically developed for firefighters and does not focus on job-related, fitness, and mental factors (17,18,22,24,27,30,36,40). This study shows that it may be difficult to implement a special program for each aspect of human abilities.…”

“…NFPA 1582 as "the Standard on Comprehensive Occupational Medical Program for Fire Departments" is being used in most countries to assess the health status of firefighters. Although this standard covers most of the criteria affecting occupational competence, such as medical, occupational medical, and occupational fitness evaluation (45), it is not a comprehensive framework since it does not cover other aspects of job competency, such as demographic, occupational, individual, and psychological determinants of resilience in firefighters (14,33,36,39,40). Studies introduced a competency model for firefighters consisting of five dimensions, including vocational skill, psychological quality, professional accomplishment, self-development, and interpersonal cooperation (13).…”

“…This study did not find any papers that systematically reviewed criteria, methods, or models for firefighters' resilience assessment. Among the conducted research studies, 43% were from the USA (18, 19, 21, 22, 25, 26, 31, 32, 35-37, 42, 45), and others from Canada (n=5) (33,39,43,44); Netherlands (n=3) (28,29,40); Republic of Korea (n=2) (34,46); Malaysia (n=2) (27,41); China (13); Iran (14), Poland (24), UK (27); Italy (30); Belgium (23), and Ghana (38). Moreover, 71% of the studies were carried out during the last decade (𝑛 = 22).…”

“…The study designs of the included papers were heterogeneous. Overall, 22.5% of the papers focused on physical fitness (n=7) (22,25,26,30,33,35,39), and injury determinants (n=6, 19.3%) (19,24,31,38,43,46), while the remaining studies focused on demographic determinants (n=4, 12.9%) (14,18,21,23), sleep disorders (n=3, 9.6%) (34,36,42), body composition (n=2, 6.4%) (32,41), physiological determinants (n=1) (17), musculoskeletal disorders (n=1), stress and psychology (n=1), chronic disease (n=1), health requirements (n=1), competency model (n=1) (13), training (n=1) (37), personality (n=1) (40), and the occupational medical determinants (n=1) (45). Among the included papers, 28 were articles, one was a thesis report (38), one was a standard guideline (45), one was an official report (43), and one (13) focused on developing a competency model for firefighters.…”