Disaster management and the critical thinking skills of local emergency managers
Correlations With Age, Gender, Education, and Years in Occupation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7750294 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Stacy L Peerbolte (United States Department of Homeland Security), Matthew Collins (0000-0003-3785-6008, Walden University), Matthew Lloyd Collins |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 48-60 |
| Publication date | 2013-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Disasters (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0361-3666 • E-ISSN: 1467-7717 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1467-7717.2012.01291.x |
| PMID | 23067348 |
| OpenAlex | W2172169199 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 12 |
| References cited | 12 |
Emergency managers must be able to think critically in order to identify and anticipate situations, solve problems, make judgements and decisions effectively and efficiently, and assume and manage risk. Heretofore, a critical thinking skills assessment of local emergency managers had yet to be conducted that tested for correlations among age, gender, education, and years in occupation. An exploratory descriptive research design, using the Watson–Glaser Critical Thinking Appraisal‐Short Form (WGCTA‐S), was employed to determine the extent to which a sample of 54 local emergency managers demonstrated the critical thinking skills associated with the ability to assume and manage risk as compared to the critical thinking scores of a group of 4,790 peer‐level managers drawn from an archival WGCTA‐S database. This exploratory design suggests that the local emergency managers, surveyed in this study, had lower WGCTA‐S critical thinking scores than their equivalents in the archival database with the exception of those in the high education and high experience group
Critical appraisal · Critical thinking · Emergency management · Exploratory research · Mathematics education · Medical education · Medical emergency · Poison control · Political science · Sample (material · Social science · Sociology · Suicide prevention · Applied Psychology · Disaster Management and Resilience · Disaster Response and Management · Emergency and Acute Care Studies · Human Factors and Ergonomics · Medicine · Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 12 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2026 (13) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 12 |