Abstract
Abstract This study was designed to analyze the extent of incident shock impact on emotional exhaustion and physical symptoms. Thesubjects were 415 rescue workers in Seoul Metropolitan Fire and Disaster Headquarters. Questionnaire consisted of 20 socio-demographic questions, 22 incident shock scale and emotional exhaustion scale and 20 physical symptoms scale. Empirical anal-ysis was verified at the 5% significance level and for SPSSWIN 18.0 program was used for processing statistics. With high reli-abilities, the extent of incident shock was Cronbach’s α=.975, emotional exhaustion was .914 and physical symptoms was .965,The results show that the groups who had more career years as fire fighters and rescue moblilization had higher levels of incidentshock. In the respect of researching every rescue workers in Seoul, this study is meanigful. Moreover, to prevent and relief the riskof high-risk incident shock groups the Japan’s Disaster Stress Program which can connect check-up and treatment after incidentshock is need to be introduced and applied.Key words : rescue workers, incident shock, emotional exhaustion, Physical symptoms
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