Estrés postraumático y su relación con las habilidades sociales y la resiliencia en bomberos operativos

Abstract

The conducted research identified the relationship between post-traumatic stress with social skills and resilience, as the main objective in operational firefighters; to help its fulfillment, three scales were implemented, Davison’s Trauma Scale, Gismero’s Social Skills Scale and Wangnild & Young’s Resilience Scale. A general populat ion of 168 operational firefighters, both men and women, was used; of which 124 firefighters were selected by exclusion criteria. Using SPSS statistic software, the existence of a relationship between post-traumatic stress with social skills was analyzed, a relationship between resilience and post-traumatic stress and each of these variables was related to working time. The results showed that there is a negative correlation between post-traumatic stress and resilience, this because if one changes to high values the other decreases them; that way resilience helps to face the stressful problems. On the other hand, there is also a negative relationship between posttraumatic stress and social skills, being this of help to overcome adversity, proving that

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skills in firefighters have medium levels of sociability. Likewise, it was evidenced that there are relationships between the three variables with working time of the operational firefighters. The results were analyzed with several studies showing that there is a relationship between, both resilience and social skills, with posttraumatic stress.