TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2019//
TI  - Firefighters and empathy: does it hurt to care too much?
JO  - Journal of loss and trauma
A1  - Wagner, Shannon L.
A1  - Pasca, Romana
A1  - Regehr, Cheryl
SP  - 238
EP  - 250
VL  - 24
IS  - 3
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 1532-5024
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15325024.2018.1525035
ID  - ref1
ER  -