Personality and psychophysiological profiles of police officer and firefighter recruits

被引：38

作者：

Salters-Pedneault, Kristalyn ^{[1
]}

Ruef, Anna M. ^{[4
]}

Orr, Scott P. ^{[2
,3
,4
]}

机构：

[1] VA Boston Healthcare Syst, Boston, MA USA

[2] Massachusetts Gen Hosp, Dept Psychiat, Boston, MA 02114 USA

[3] Harvard Univ, Sch Med, Boston, MA USA

[4] Vet Affairs Med Ctr, Res Serv, Manchester, NH USA

来源：

PERSONALITY AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES | 2010年 / 49卷 / 03期

关键词：

Extraversion; Five Factor Personality Model; Psychophysiology; POSTTRAUMATIC-STRESS-DISORDER; PHYSIOLOGICAL-RESPONSES; LOUD TONES; SYMPTOMS;

D O I：

10.1016/j.paid.2010.03.037

中图分类号：

B84 [心理学];

学科分类号：

04 ; 0402 ;

摘要：

Some have suggested that people who join emergency-services professions have a unique set of personality and response characteristics that allow them to manage the intense stressors of their particular jobs. The nature of personality and response profiles of individuals from different emergency-services professions could have both clinical and policy implications. The present study examined self-reported personality traits of police and firefighter recruits, as well as their psychophysiological response patterns during a loud-tone procedure. Police recruits scored higher than firefighters on gregariousness, a facet of Extraversion, and on dutifulness and deliberation, facets of Conscientiousness. Compared to a normative sample, police and firefighters both scored higher on excitement-seeking, a facet of Extraversion. Comparisons with psychophysiological data from a non-rescuer sample suggest that the firefighter recruits exhibited higher heart rate and skin conductance (SC) levels, while police recruits showed larger eyeblink electromyogram (EMG) startle responses and required more trials to reach SC habituation criteria. (C) 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

引用

页码：210 / 215

页数：6

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