Experiences of Posttraumatic Growth in Firefighters
| Categories | Theme clusters | Themes |
|---|---|---|
| Growth in self-perception | Move forward beyond fear | • Build up calluses to fight your fears. |
| • Strengthened by embodied experience | ||
| Accept reality | • Embracing my life as it is | |
| • Distance from work and emotions | ||
| Rediscovery of the meaning of life | Look at life positively | • Meaning found in everyday life |
| • Appreciate for everyday | ||
| Deepened interpersonal relationships | The importance of family grows | • Precious beings that give you strength |
| • Becoming pride of your family | ||
| Colleagues who have been a strong support | • Becoming another family you can trust and rely on. | |
| • Solidarity strengthened in adversity | ||
| Development of human love | • Deepening compassion for the family of trauma victims | |
| • Deeper empathy for trauma victims | ||
| Discovery of the meaning of work | Becoming a protagonist in the workplace | • Developing on-the-spot response skills while accumulating professional knowledge |
| • Becoming a veteran in the field | ||
| Reflect on the meaning of work | • Deeper sense of duty to work | |
| • What you dream of becomes your vocation | ||
| • Finding noble value |