title: Personality and resilience associated with perceived fatigue of local government employees responding to disasters.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  According to some newspapers, concerns are growing over the health of local government employees in the Great East Japan Earthquake disaster areas. Concerns were consistently present after the Hanshin-Awaji and Niigata-Chuetsu earthquakes but not studied analytically.
  
  
  METHODS
  Municipal employees responding to the disasters after an earthquake and floods answered a questionnaire about the degrees of workload, fatigue, psychological distress, resilience and personality traits.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Two-thirds of the employees suffered fatigue and psychological distress, which were significantly correlated with workload but inversely correlated with emotional stability personality traits and psychological resilience.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Together with substantial workload, individual differences in emotional stability and to lesser degree in resilience were found to have an impact on perceived fatigue. These individual factors should be considered as potential mediators of distresses among local government employees responding to disasters.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Niigata University Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Japan. kitamura@med.niigata-u.ac.jp
authors.forename: Hideaki
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kitamura
authors.forename: Masanobu
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Shindo
authors.forename: Akira
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Tachibana
authors.forename: Hiroko
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Honma
authors.forename: Toshiyuki
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Someya
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D004190:Disasters; D060731:Emergency Responders / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan; D009111:Local Government; D008297:Male; D008603:Mental Health; D008875:Middle Aged; D010551:Personality; D055500:Resilience, Psychological; D016526:Workload