TY  - JOUR
AB  - 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.
AU  - Thielsch, Meinald
AU  - Kirsch, Julia
AU  - Thölking, Hannah
AU  - Tangelder, Lena
AU  - Lamers, Christoph
DA  - 2020-10-26
DO  - 10.1080/00140139.2020.1825824
KW  - Forschungsprojekt FIRE
KW  - Firefighting
KW  - laypeople
KW  - attitudes
KW  - self-efficacy
KW  - training effects
LA  - eng
N1  - Ergonomics 64 (2020) 2, 149-170
N1  - 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
N1  - This work was supported by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (funding code FKZ 13N14208).
N1  - The data of this study are available at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3753931.
PY  - 2020-10-26
TI  - Fight or flight? Behaviour and experiences of laypersons in the face of an incipient fire
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hbz:6-87099595325
Y2  - 2024-11-22T00:57:34
ER  -