Post-traumatic growth as positive personality change: developing a measure to assess within-person variability
Earlier work has defined post-traumatic growth (PTG) as positive personality change, but measurement of this construct has relied almost exclusively on cross-sectional and retrospective assessments. The aim of this study was to use an experience-sampling procedure to measure the extent to which PTG...
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| author | Blackie, Laura E.R. Jayawickreme, Eranda Tsukayama, Eli Forgeard, Marie, J.C. Roepke, Ann Marie Fleeson, William |
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| description | Earlier work has defined post-traumatic growth (PTG) as positive personality change, but measurement of this construct has relied almost exclusively on cross-sectional and retrospective assessments. The aim of this study was to use an experience-sampling procedure to measure the extent to which PTG manifested in individuals’ everyday lives after a recent highly stressful or traumatic adverse event (compared to a control group). In doing so, we developed a state measure of PTG. The factor structure of state PTG was comparable to trait PTG, there was significant variability in individuals’ PTG from moment-to-moment, but individuals’ trait PTG was unrelated to their state PTG. Moreover, individuals who had experienced a recent adversity did not differ from control participants on state PTG. |
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| spelling | nottingham-370382020-05-04T17:45:28Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/37038/ Post-traumatic growth as positive personality change: developing a measure to assess within-person variability Blackie, Laura E.R. Jayawickreme, Eranda Tsukayama, Eli Forgeard, Marie, J.C. Roepke, Ann Marie Fleeson, William Earlier work has defined post-traumatic growth (PTG) as positive personality change, but measurement of this construct has relied almost exclusively on cross-sectional and retrospective assessments. The aim of this study was to use an experience-sampling procedure to measure the extent to which PTG manifested in individuals’ everyday lives after a recent highly stressful or traumatic adverse event (compared to a control group). In doing so, we developed a state measure of PTG. The factor structure of state PTG was comparable to trait PTG, there was significant variability in individuals’ PTG from moment-to-moment, but individuals’ trait PTG was unrelated to their state PTG. Moreover, individuals who had experienced a recent adversity did not differ from control participants on state PTG. Elsevier 2016-04-21 Article PeerReviewed Blackie, Laura E.R., Jayawickreme, Eranda, Tsukayama, Eli, Forgeard, Marie, J.C., Roepke, Ann Marie and Fleeson, William (2016) Post-traumatic growth as positive personality change: developing a measure to assess within-person variability. Journal of Research in Personality, 69 . pp. 22-32. ISSN 0092-6566 Post-traumatic growth Adversity Experience-sampling Daily well-being http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0092656616300174 doi:10.1016/j.jrp.2016.04.001 doi:10.1016/j.jrp.2016.04.001 |
| spellingShingle | Post-traumatic growth Adversity Experience-sampling Daily well-being Blackie, Laura E.R. Jayawickreme, Eranda Tsukayama, Eli Forgeard, Marie, J.C. Roepke, Ann Marie Fleeson, William Post-traumatic growth as positive personality change: developing a measure to assess within-person variability |
| title | Post-traumatic growth as positive personality change: developing a measure to assess within-person variability |
| title_full | Post-traumatic growth as positive personality change: developing a measure to assess within-person variability |
| title_fullStr | Post-traumatic growth as positive personality change: developing a measure to assess within-person variability |
| title_full_unstemmed | Post-traumatic growth as positive personality change: developing a measure to assess within-person variability |
| title_short | Post-traumatic growth as positive personality change: developing a measure to assess within-person variability |
| title_sort | post-traumatic growth as positive personality change: developing a measure to assess within-person variability |
| topic | Post-traumatic growth Adversity Experience-sampling Daily well-being |
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