Fight or flight? Behaviour and experiences of laypersons in the face of an incipient fire
Within minutes, an incipient fire can develop into a life-threatening full fire. Consequently, it should be fought as early as possible. But are laypersons capable of doing this? In such a situation, how do they behave and feel? These questions are addressed in the current study. Persons without any...
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FB/Einrichtung: | FB 07: Psychologie und Sportwissenschaft |
Dokumenttypen: | Artikel |
Medientypen: | Text |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2020 |
Publikation in MIAMI: | 14.04.2021 |
Datum der letzten Änderung: | 27.10.2021 |
Angaben zur Ausgabe: | [Electronic ed.] |
Schlagwörter: | Firefighting; laypeople; attitudes; self-efficacy; training effects Forschungsprojekt FIRE |
Fachgebiet (DDC): | 150: Psychologie |
Lizenz: | InC 1.0 |
Sprache: | English |
Anmerkungen: | Ergonomics 64 (2020) 2, 149-170 This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in “Ergonomics” on 26 Oct 2020, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/00140139.2020.1825824 The data of this study are available at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3753931. |
Förderung: | This work was supported by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (funding code FKZ 13N14208). |
Format: | PDF-Dokument |
URN: | urn:nbn:de:hbz:6-87099595325 |
Weitere Identifikatoren: | DOI: 10.1080/00140139.2020.1825824 |
Permalink: | https://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:hbz:6-87099595325 |
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Onlinezugriff: | 10.1080_00140139.2020.1825824.pdf |
Within minutes, an incipient fire can develop into a life-threatening full fire. Consequently, it should be fought as early as possible. But are laypersons capable of doing this? In such a situation, how do they behave and feel? These questions are addressed in the current study. Persons without any professional firefighting training (N = 64) were confronted in two experimental runs with a real incipient fire in the form of a burning pillow. The results show that most participants were motivated and able to extinguish the fire successfully. However, most of them made a number of mistakes. Of central importance for extinguishing the fire was self-efficacy. Furthermore, participants improved greatly in the second round, especially regarding reaction time span and various psychological variables (e.g. stress, mood). Particularly on the basis of these exercise effects, we can derive a number of practical implications.