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Is resilience trainable? An initial study comparing mindfulness and relaxation training in firefighters
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- 자료유형학술지논문
- 저자명Denkova, Ekaterina,Zanesco, Anthony P.,Rogers, Scott L.,Jha, Amishi P.
- 학회/출판사/기관명Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam.
- 출판년도2020
- 언어영어
- 학술지명/학위논문주기Psychiatry research
- 발행사항Vol.285No.-[2020]_x000D_
- ISBN/ISSN0165-1781
- 소개/요약Motivated by the growing interest in promoting resilience in first responders and other professionals who face threatening professional circumstances, the current study investigated the effectiveness of offering a short-form mindfulness training (MT) program to firefighters. The overarching question was to determine if psychological and cognitive markers of resilience are bolstered via MT. Firefighters (n = 121) were assigned to an MT program (n = 42), an active-comparison relaxation training program (RT, n = 31), or served as no-training controls (NTC, n = 48). Both the MT and RT programs were contextualized for firefighters and consisted of 4, 2-h training sessions delivered over 4 weeks by the same expert trainer, as well as 10-15 min of daily out-of-class practice. Intent-to-treat analyses revealed a significantly greater increase in psychological resilience from baseline (T1) to post-training (T2) in firefighters who received MT vs. RT or no training. In addition, positive affect and objective attentional task performance demonstrated a greater increase over time (from T1 to T2) with more days per week of out-of-class practice for the MT group but not for the RT group. These results suggest that MT moreso than RT bolsters markers of resilience in firefighters.
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