Objective: To develop a Fire Fighting and Rescue Personnel Competency Scale and examine its reliability and validity.
Methods: The initial scale was constructed through systematic literature review, data retrieval, and semi-structured interviews with 24 Chinese fire fighting and rescue personnels in July 2024. Subsequently, in November 2024, the initial version was administered to 863 participants for item analysis and exploratory factor analysis, resulting in the formal scale. Finally, in December 2024, the formal scale was administered to 432 fire fighting and rescue personnels, and the data were subjected to confirmatory factor analysis and reliability and validity analyses.
Results: The final Fire Fighting and Rescue Personnel Competency Scale consists of 32 items across four dimensions: cognitive characteristics, interpersonal coordination, personal traits, and professional competence. The internal consistency coefficients for the total scale and subscales ranged from 0.890 to 0.961. The four-factor model demonstrated acceptable fit: χ2/df=3.117, CFI=0.894, TLI=0.887, SRMR=0.049, RMSEA=0.070. Significant positive correlations were found between the total and subscale scores and measures of work engagement and professional identity, indicating good criterion-related validity.
Conclusion: The Fire Fighting and Rescue Personnel Competency Scale demonstrates good reliability and validity and can be used for assessing competency among Chinese fire fighting and rescue personnels.
CHEN Jie
,
CHEN Jie
,
FAN Weiqiao
,
WANG Jingyi
,
ZHONG Xia
,
LIU Minlou
. Development and Reliability and Validity Testing of the Fire Fighting and Rescue Personnel Competency Scale[J]. Psychological Communications, 2025
, 8(3)
: 207
-216
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DOI: 10.12100/j.issn.2096-5494.225029
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