Research on Intervention Strategies and Neural Mechanisms for Competence Frustration: A Case of Fire Rescue Personnel

Abstract Background With the rapid development of knowledge economy society and the sudden increase of social pressure, people in all walks of life generally suffer competency need frustration. Fire rescue personnel as a typical high-load, high-pressure, high-risk occupation, are easily suffering competence need frustrated. Therefore, this study chooses fire rescue personnel as the research object, aims to accurately measure the level of competence frustration and what measures to take to alleviate the negative effects of competence frustration. (2) Methods: 20 graduate students were selected to verify the effect of frontal lobe α asymmetry (FAA) as a judgement of the competence frustration level using an EEG experimental method. On this basis, through two stopwatch stopping experiments, 72 fire rescue personnel were selected to conduct the experiments to investigate the intervention effects of developmental feedback and compassion-focused therapy. (3) Results: Frontal α asymmetry could be used as an EEG indicator for judging competence frustration, and the compassion-focused therapy intervention reduced the level of competence frustration of the participants, while the developmental feedback intervention improved the level of competence frustration of the participants. (4) Conclusions: The difference in the effects of the two intervention methods indicates that when intervening in competence frustration, it is easier to reduce competence frustration by focusing on the subjects themselves than by focusing on the completion of the task.