Comparing the Effectiveness of Resilience and Emotion Regulation Training on Percieved Stress, Anxiety Sensitivity, Psychological Well-Being and Self-Efficacy in Fire Fighters

Sharifi, Niloufar and Basharpoor, Sajjad and Narimani, Mohammad (2018) Comparing the Effectiveness of Resilience and Emotion Regulation Training on Percieved Stress, Anxiety Sensitivity, Psychological Well-Being and Self-Efficacy in Fire Fighters. Masters thesis, University of Mohaghegh Ardabili.

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Abstract

Research Aim: The current study was carried out with The aim of comparing the effectiveness of resilience training and emotion regulation on the perceived stress, anxiety sensitivity , psychological well-being and self-efficacy of firefighters . Research method: The method of this study was experimental and its design was multi group pre-test and post-tet. The statistical population of this investigation comprised all the employees of the firefighting organization of Ardabil (N=150) in the fall of 1396. Out of them, 45 individuals were Clustring method chosen and were arranged in 3 groups: resilience training group (n=15), emotion regulation training group (n=15), and control group (n=15). All the three groups answered to the questionaires to demography, perceived stress of cohen et all (1983), anxiety sensitivity of Floyd et all (2005), Reefs psychological well-being (1989), and self-efficacy of shrer et all (1982). Then, the first experimental group underwent 8 resilience training sessions and the second experimental group went through 8 emotion regulation training sessions and the control group was exposed to no intervention. Finally, all the 3 groups answered to the questionnaire as post-test. The collected data were analyzed using covariance analysis test and Benfronis follow-up test. Findings: The results of covariance analysis showed that there existed a meaningful statistical difference among the three groups of resilience training , emotion regulation training and control group concerning the marks of perceived stress, anxiety sensitivity , psychological well-being and self-efficacy. The results of the follow-up test also showed there existed no meaningful effectiveness difference between the two training methods of resilience and emotion regulation in respect with the factors of perceived stress and psychological well-being, but emotion regulation training was more effective in anxiety sensitivity than resilience and resilience training in self-efficacy was more effective than emotion regulation training. Conclusion: In general, this results of the study proved that the two methods of resilience training and emotion regulation training were effective on the perceived stress, anxiety sensitivity, psychological well-being and self-efficacy of firefighters.

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