Role of Resilience in Mindfulness Training for First Responders

Kaplan, Joshua Benjamin; Bergman, Aaron L.; Christopher, Michael; Bowen, Sarah; Hunsinger, Matthew

doi:10.1007/s12671-017-0713-2

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“…Moreover, previous studies have found that people can effectively reduce negative experiences by improving their levels of mindfulness, as psychological resilience plays a mediating role between mindfulness and negative experiences (Kaplan, Bergman, Christopher, Bowen & Hunsinger, ). Based on the above analysis, we therefore hypothesized that psychological resilience may play a mediating role in the relationship between mindfulness and benign/malicious envy.…”

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How mindfulness affects benign and malicious envy from the perspective of the mindfulness reperceiving model

Dong

Xiang

Zhao

et al. 2019

Scandinavian J Psychology

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W. (2020). How mindfulness affects benign and malicious envy from the perspective of the mindfulness reperceiving model. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 61, 436-442.At present, mindfulness is a hotspot in psychological research. Mindfulness is an effective tool that enables people to effectively inhibit negative emotions. Previous studies have shown that envy is a typical negative emotion; however, envy can be divided into two completely different types: benign envy and malicious envy. The question then arises, how does mindfulness affect both types of envy? Using a mindfulness reperceiving model, we explored the effect of mindfulness on these two different types of envy and on the mediating mechanism of psychological resilience. To accomplish this, we recruited 676 Chinese undergraduates to complete the Mindful Attention Awareness Scale (MAAS), the Benign and Malicious Envy Scale (BEMAS) and the Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale (CD-RISC). The results we obtained showed that mindfulness and psychological resilience significantly and negatively predicted malicious envy and that psychological resilience played a partially mediating role in the relationship. In addition, the results showed that there was no significant effect between mindfulness and benign envy; however, psychological resilience can significantly and positively predict benign envy and played a completely mediating role between mindfulness and benign envy. These results effectively extend theories based on the mindfulness reperceiving model while also being important for promoting benign envy and inhibiting malicious envy in terms of improving mindfulness and psychological resilience.

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How mindfulness affects benign and malicious envy from the perspective of the mindfulness reperceiving model

Dong

Xiang

Zhao

et al. 2019

Scandinavian J Psychology

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“…Thus, while no research has directly tested the effects of continuous exposure to hateful or violent content in moderators, such consequences should be investigated further, as most of online hate speech is currently policed by human moderators. Furthermore, if similar patterns of secondary traumatic stress are found in this group, lessons may be learned from secondary trauma prevention and treatment of other trauma-exposed professionals (Bell, Kulkarni, & Dalton, 2003;Kaplan, Bergman, Christopher, Bowen, & Hunsinger, 2017;Kleim & Westphal, 2011).…”

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“…While this measure was put into place to reduce the risk of secondary traumatic stress, several annotators dropped out of the study due to the burden associated with annotating hate speech. Future researchers may consider implementation of other preventative and treatment interventions for secondary traumatic stress including repeated assessment of vulnerability factors, identification of at-risk groups within annotators for traumatic stress, continuous self-care and supervision, and mindfulness training (Kaplan et al, 2017;Kleim & Westphal, 2011).…”

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Introducing the Gab Hate Corpus: Defining and applying hate-based rhetoric to social media posts at scale

Kennedy¹,

Atari²,

Am³

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The growing prominence of online hate speech is a threat to a safe and just society. This endangering phenomenon requires collaboration across the sciences in order to generate evidence-based knowledge of, and policies for, the dissemination of hatred in online spaces. To foster such collaborations, here we present the Gab Hate Corpus (GHC), consisting of 27,665 posts from the social network service gab.ai, each annotated by a minimum of three trained annotators. Annotators were trained to label posts according to a coding typology derived from a synthesis of hate speech definitions across legal, computational, psychological, and sociological research. We detail the development of the corpus, describe the resulting distributions of hate-based rhetoric, target group, and rhetorical framing labels, and establish baseline classification performance for each using standard natural language processing methods. The GHC, which is the largest theoretically-justified, annotated corpus of hate speech to date, provides opportunities for training and evaluating hate speech classifiers and for scientific inquiries into the linguistic and network components of hate speech.

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“…For example, MBIs have been shown to reduce stress-related working memory impairments in students, to enhance occupational functioning in working adults experiencing anxiety and to increase resilience and decrease burnout in police officers. [35][36][37] Further exploration of the effects of this training on such outcomes in EMDs could shed light on the beneficial impacts of MBIs for our very first responders.…”

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Destress 9-1-1—an online mindfulness-based intervention in reducing stress among emergency medical dispatchers: a randomised controlled trial

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ObjectivesEmergency medical dispatchers (EMDs) experience significant stress in the workplace. Yet, interventions aimed at reducing work-related stress are difficult to implement due to the logistic challenges associated with the relatively unique EMD work environment. This investigation tested the efficacy of a 7-week online mindfulness-based intervention (MBI) tailored to the EMD workforce.MethodsActive-duty EMDs from the USA and Canada (n=323) were randomly assigned to an intervention or wait list control condition. Participants completed surveys of stress and mindfulness at baseline, post intervention, and 3 months follow-up. Repeated measures mixed effects models were used to assess changes in stress and mindfulness.ResultsDifferences between the intervention group and control group in pre–post changes in stress using the Calgary Symptoms of Stress Inventory were statistically significant, with a difference of −10.0 (95% CI: −14.9, −5.2, p<0.001) for change from baseline to post intervention, and a difference of −6.5 (95% CI: −11.9, −1.1, p=0.02) for change from baseline to 3 months follow-up. Change in mindfulness scores did not differ between groups. However, increases in mindfulness scores were correlated with greater reductions in stress for all participants, regardless of group (r=−0.53, p<0.001).ConclusionsDevelopment of tailored online MBIs for employees working in challenging work environments offer a promising direction for prevention and intervention. This study found that a short, weekly online MBI for EMDs resulted in reductions in reports of stress. Implications of online MBIs in other emergency responding populations and directions for future research are discussed.

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Role of Resilience in Mindfulness Training for First Responders

Cited by 93 publications

References 69 publications

How mindfulness affects benign and malicious envy from the perspective of the mindfulness reperceiving model

How mindfulness affects benign and malicious envy from the perspective of the mindfulness reperceiving model

Introducing the Gab Hate Corpus: Defining and applying hate-based rhetoric to social media posts at scale

Destress 9-1-1—an online mindfulness-based intervention in reducing stress among emergency medical dispatchers: a randomised controlled trial

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