A study on meaning of life and attitudes toward death for firefighters --- in Kaohsiung County and Cit
2007
Hochschulschrift
Zugriff:
95
The objectives of this study were to examine the meaning of life and attitudes toward death for firefighters- in Kaohsiung County and City. A further investigation on their possible relationships between the demographic variables (age, working years, education level, marital status, religion) of firefighters, environmental variables (work-related injuries, work-related life-threatening events, colleagues’ work-related death, loss of family members experiences) and their views of meaning of life and attitudes toward death were performed. The research instruments were: 1. structured questionnaires surveys: “The Meaning of Life” questionnaires and “Death Attitude Profile-Revised, DAP-R”; 2. face-in-face interview in depth with 10 selected firefighters. The samples were using the firefighters from Kaohsiung County and City. 500 questionnaires were distributed and 443 effective questionnaires were received. SPSS 10.0 for Windows with the function of descriptive statistics, compare Means with T-test, one-way ANOVA ( Scheff´e test) and Canonical Correlations analysis were performed to analyse the collected data. The results were as follows: 1. In the aspect of meaning of life. a. Firefighters viewed life mainly on “Life control”. b. 51 to 60 years age group scored “Life control” subscale significantly higher than 31 to 40 years age group. c. With 21 to 30 working years firefighters scored “Life control”, “Sorrow and sufferings acceptance”, “Life purpose” and “Will to meaning” significantly higher than the 6 to 10 working years. d. Divorced and widow scored higher than the single in “Sorrow and sufferings acceptance” and “Life purpose” subscales. e. Buddhist scored significantly higher than the non-religion in “Life purpose” subscale. 2. In the aspect of attitudes toward death. a. Firefighters’ attitudes were mainly toward “death avoidance”. b. 41 to 50 years old firefighters scored significantly higher on “escape acceptance” and “death acceptance” than 20 to 40 years old. c. Firefighters who work for 21 to 30 years scored significantly higher in “approach acceptance”, “death avoidance” and “fear of death” than with 6 to 10 years. In subscale “death avoidance”, 11 to 20 working years scored significantly higher than the 6 to 10 years working years. 21 to 30 working years scored significantly higher in “escape acceptance” than less than 5 working years. d. Christian scored significantly higher in “approach acceptance” than Taoism and non-religion firefighters. The Buddhist scored significantly higher than non-religion firefighters. e. Without any experiences lost of family members scored significantly higher in “fear of death” and “death avoidance” than the one who had experienced the death of family members. 3. The views of meaning of life (life control, sorrow and sufferings acceptance, life purpose and will to meaning) were strongly associated with the attitudes towards death (approach acceptance, fear of death, escape acceptance, death avoidance). The suggestions to the authority and administrative department for future implications practice include: 1. emphasizing on the life-saving equipments, facilities and training; 2. participating the “Life Education “curriculum; 3. choose an own religion; 4. establishing the social life within the firefighters’ family members.
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A study on meaning of life and attitudes toward death for firefighters --- in Kaohsiung County and Cit
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | He, Miao-fen ; 何妙芬 |
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Veröffentlichung: | 2007 |
Medientyp: | Hochschulschrift |
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