Firefighting Experiments

Fire fighters have a better control over their emotional regulations as a result of their constant involvement with emotional situations. The purpose of this study of fire fighters’ is to show the emotional regulation abilities fire fighters have. The study will show fire fighters and the average situations that they face in their careers and on a daily basis. This experiment shows the emotional regulations the firemen have during traumatic and emotionally demanding situations compared to people outside of the firefighting career. It can also show which of the nine coping strategies, self-blame, other-blame, rumination, catastrophizing, putting into perspective, positive refocusing, positive reappraisal, acceptance, and refocus on planning, …show more content…
It will use a car that was in a fatality car wreck and have actors dressed up as the patients from that wreck, one of which will be deceased. The patients in the simulation will have the same injuries as the actual patients from the wrecked car. An ambulance and a medical examiner will be on the scene when the participants come out to help guide the participants in treatment of the living patient, as well as pronouncing the deceased dead. The groups will start in the fire house to simulate a normal working day for a fire crew. The fire fighter group will respond to the simulation first, followed by the non-fire fighter group. The group not responding will be in a secluded location so they have no information on the simulation. While in the fire house, the groups will care on with normal day to day activities such as watching television or cooking dinner, and not be told any information about when the simulation will occur. The fact that it is a car wreck will not be divulged until the dispatch radios the information. This gives the illusion of being in a real fire house and of what it is like to receive and respond to a call. Each group will receive the information over the radio from dispatch. The dispatch information will include that they will be responding to a car wreck with two patients with severe injuries, and that the patients need to be treated. No information of the fatality will be included. The group will walk outside to the parking lot where the simulation will be set up. While responding to the wreck, the participants will individually be observed by an experimenter during this time to document emotions on the scene. The participants will have to respond to the simulation and treat the living patient as well as pronounce the deceased dead. The fire department normal moves the deceased to the medical examiner’s vehicle but for this simulation that will not be required,