@article{ref1,
title="Firefighters and empathy: does it hurt to care too much?",
journal="Journal of loss and trauma",
year="2019",
author="Wagner, Shannon L. and Pasca, Romana and Regehr, Cheryl",
volume="24",
number="3",
pages="238-250",
abstract="Firefighters (N = 186) from two urban centers completed a set of questionnaires measuring empathy, traumatic stress, mental distress, aggression, world assumptions, and personality. Response rate was 81.5%. Both traumatic stress and mental distress were associated with higher use of emotional empathy. Emotional empathy was also related to anger, aggression, and sense of self-worth, as well as worldviews that included benevolence and meaningfulness. Of the big five personality traits, only neuroticism was associated with emotional empathy. Emotional empathy appears to be a substantial contributor to increased traumatic and general mental distress in firefighters.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1532-5024",
doi="10.1080/15325024.2018.1525035",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15325024.2018.1525035"
}