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Psychological Hardiness and Coping Strategies to Deal with Traumatic Event at Algerian Firefighters

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Proceedings of the 20th Congress of the International Ergonomics Association (IEA 2018) (IEA 2018)

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Abstract

The purpose of this study is to investigate the psychological hardiness and coping strategies among Algerian firefighters.

The study used the quantitative method (cross-sectional survey).

Data were collected using the Scale of Psychological hardiness [1], and Ways of Coping Check List (WCC) [2].

The study sample consisted of (99) firefighters.

It has been found that both psychological hardiness, and coping strategies increased over time among Algerian firefighters.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Sétif University 2, Sétif, Algeria

    Lahcene Bouabdellah, Idir Bensalem & Houda Kherbache

  2. University of Bahrain, Sakhir, Bahrain

    Mohamed Mokdad

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  1. Lahcene Bouabdellah
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Correspondence to Lahcene Bouabdellah .

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. University of the Republic of San Marino, San Marino, San Marino

    Sebastiano Bagnara

  2. Centre for Clinical Risk Management and Patient Safety, Tuscany Region, Florence, Italy

    Riccardo Tartaglia

  3. Centre for Clinical Risk Management and Patient Safety, Tuscany Region, Florence, Italy

    Sara Albolino

  4. Fraunhofer FKIE, Bonn, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

    Thomas Alexander

  5. International Ergonomics Association, Tokyo, Japan

    Yushi Fujita

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Bouabdellah, L., Bensalem, I., Mokdad, M., Kherbache, H. (2019). Psychological Hardiness and Coping Strategies to Deal with Traumatic Event at Algerian Firefighters. In: Bagnara, S., Tartaglia, R., Albolino, S., Alexander, T., Fujita, Y. (eds) Proceedings of the 20th Congress of the International Ergonomics Association (IEA 2018). IEA 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 819. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96089-0_31

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