Crisis de identidad luego de un episodio de estrés postraumático en los bomberos voluntarios de Pamplona.

Abstract

Post-traumatic stress disorder is a mental alteration that derives especially from eventualities or situations that generate a high level of anxiety and concern in people. Thus, the main objective of this study was to identify whether there is the presence of post-traumatic stress and thus an identity crisis in the Volunteer Firefighters of the City of Pamplona through a quantitative research, providing recommendations on intervention techniques for the management of post-traumatic stress in the future. For this purpose, a research was developed with a quantitative methodology, nonexperimental of transversal type, the sampling carried out towards the population was of 12 firefighters of plant of the central volunteer fire station of the municipality of Pamplona, the instruments and tests applied were: The instruments and tests applied were: the post-traumatic stress scale and the Eysenck inventory test, on the other hand, the results obtained through this research revealed that according to the answers recorded in the acute stress scale, these do not show an alteration in terms of post-traumatic stress disorder, According to the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire (EPQ), they are located in the extroversion-stable dimension, emphasizing their characteristic trait, which is "sanguine", which shows that they are socially active people, who work in teams and allow them to adapt their responses to environmental circumstances. In conclusion, the group of volunteer firefighters of Pamplona does not show indexes regarding the development of post-traumatic stress or identity crisis.