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• TITLE: Psychological Resilience and Occupational Injuries

  AUTHORS: Simo Salminen, Pia Perttula, Vuokko Puro

  KEYWORDS: Work Accidents, Drivers, Waste, Finland

  JOURNAL NAME: Psychology, Vol.11 No.3, March 25, 2020

  ABSTRACT: Resilience embodies the personal qualities that enable one to thrive in the face of adversity. A previous Italian study showed that injured workers had a lower level of resilience than non-injured workers. The aim of this paper is to examine the relationship between occupational injuries and psychological resilience. The subjects consisted of 197 drivers from two Finnish waste transport companies. As part of a larger questionnaire, they filled in the Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale, which had 25 items. The drivers reported their occupational injuries during the last three years. The drivers with occupational injuries had a higher score (average 69.3) on the Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale than the drivers without injuries (67.7). According to Student’s t-test, the difference between the groups was highly significant (t = 40.44, df = 196, p