Abstract: To explore the current status of firefighters' post-traumatic growth and its related influencing factors, a survey was conducted on 2 330 firefighters using the Posttraumatic Growth Inventory (PTGI), Resilience Scale (RISC), and Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (ERQ), and relevent analyses were carried out. Through analysis of variance, t-test, correlation analysis, and linear-regression analysis, it was found 1 546 firefighters showed moderately high levels of post-traumatic growth; there were significant differences in PTG among only children, different marital statuses, age, education background, working year, and occupational category (P0.05); resilience and cognitive reappraisal were significantly and positively correlated with PTG (r=0.59, P0.01; r=0.49, P0.01); Working years, age, psychological resilience and cognitive reappraisal significantly predict the level of post-traumatic growth, that is, the higher the level of psychological resilience and cognitive reappraisal, the shorter the working years, and the younger the age of fire rescue personnel, the higher their post-traumatic growth level. The research results indicate that, fire stations should provide career transition or promotion opportunities for older firefighters with longer working years to reduce the continuous new impact of frontline work on their psychology; meanwhile, regular psychological interventions should be carried out to help firefighters adjust their mindset and reconstruct their cognition of the traumatic events, so as to promote the enhancement of post-traumatic growth level.

Key words: post-traumatic growth, influence factors, resilience, cognitive reappraisal, firefighters