Impact of work pressure, work stress and work-family conflict on firefighter burnout.
Todd D Smith, David M DeJoy, Mari-Amanda Aimee Dyal, Gaojian Huang
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Todd D Smith: a Department of Applied Health Science , Indiana University School of Public Health - Bloomington , Bloomington , IN , USA.
David M DeJoy: b Workplace Health Group, Department of Health Promotion and Behavior , College of Public Health, University of Georgia , Athens , GA , USA.
Mari-Amanda Aimee Dyal: b Workplace Health Group, Department of Health Promotion and Behavior , College of Public Health, University of Georgia , Athens , GA , USA.
Gaojian Huang: d School of Industrial Engineering , Purdue University , West Lafayette , IN , USA.
Little research has explored burnout and its causes in the American fire service. Data were collected from career firefighters in the southeastern United States ( = 208) to explore these relationships. A hierarchical regression model was tested to examine predictors of burnout including sociodemographic characteristics (model 1), work pressure (model 2), work stress and work-family conflict (model 3) and interaction terms (model 4). The main findings suggest that perceived work stress and work-family conflict emerged as the significant predictors of burnout (both < .001). Interventions and programs aimed at these predictors could potentially curtail burnout among firefighters.
