Biomedical subjects

Bogusław Borys

Publications and source records attributed to Bogusław Borys.

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[Coping with stress in various rescue groups].

AIM: The main purpose of this study was checking if the above mentioned groups differentiate from each other according to the coping styles used by them; if yes, what does it depend on? METHOD: The Authors studied three groups of rescue services, representing three different formations. There were: Firemen, Ambulance services members and Policemen (preventive troupes). A few well known psychological methods were used, among them: CISS-Coping Inventory for Stressful Situations (in polish adaptation), State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (in polish adaptation) and Eysenck's-Maudsley Personality Inventory (in polish adaptation). RESULTS: The obtained results allowed to formulate some important conclusions. There were no statistically significant differences among the groups as far as the two coping styles were concerned--task and avoidance oriented. Emotionally oriented coping style is the one in which there are statistically significant differences between the researched groups. The Firemen group has the highest score in the emotional coping style. CONCLUSIONS: Using the coping styles (the most effective too), dependence mostly on the personality traits. It means that personality traits should be an essential condition in the way of accepting new members of rescue groups. The personality traits, beside the professional training, are responsible for effective coping in extremely difficult situations.

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[Coping with stress in those who experienced a traumatic situation].

AIM: Does the traumatic experience influence the choice of a particular coping style? If yes, which style is preferred by those who experienced trauma? Answering these two essential questions is the aim of this paper. The authors have accepted the assumption (Holman, Silver, 1998), that the individuals who experienced trauma prefer past temporal orientation and they present a higher level of distress. METHOD: The authors investigated two groups. The experimental group consisted of 46 victims of the Gdańsk Shipyard concert hall fire. The control group comprised the 41 individuals who never experienced any trauma. Two psychological methods were used. CISS--Endler and Parker, which measures coping styles. STAI--Spielberger and al., was the second method used for measuring the level of anxiety as an essential distress indicator. RESULTS AND CONCLUSIONS: The results show, that individuals who experienced trauma, presented a significantly higher level of anxiety and that the victims of trauma prefer the emotional coping style. The difference is statistically significant. There is also an indirect conclusion (based on these results), which confirms the above mentioned assumption.

Adaptation, Psychological↗

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[Psychological changes in the victims of the Gdańsk Shipyard hall fire in the period of 1995-1999].

AIM: The aim of this paper was to answer two questions. First--has a particular traumatic event (the Gdańsk Shipyard concert-hall fire) caused any psychopathological changes in the victims? Secondly--if yes, how do the dynamics of these changes manifest themselves? METHOD: The authors used two psychological methods. Adjective Check List, which measures the structure of psychological needs, and in some way, the picture of oneself (before and after the fire) and HADS-M, which measures the intensity of negative emotions (anxiety, depressiveness and aggression). The first investigation in 1995 included two groups: 46 victims of the fire and a control group (47 youngsters, who did not participate in this particular concert). The investigation of the victims group was then repeated twice, in 1996 (35 persons) and in 1999 (39 persons). RESULTS: The series of investigations lead to the conclusion that the traumatic event (Gdańsk Shipyard hall fire) caused statistically significant, psychopathological changes in the victims (the first investigation). The changes concerned the worsening of the picture of oneself and an increase in the intensity of negative emotions (anxiety, depressiveness, aggression). All these changes still exist, despite the time which passed since the traumatic event (the repeated investigations).

Adaptation, Psychological↗