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SCHOOL PSYCHOLOGY INTERNATIONAL
Volume 37, Issue 3, Pages 207-222Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1177/0143034316632868
Keywords
adolescents; PTG; PTSD symptoms; the Wenchuan earthquake; trait resilience
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- Key Projects of Philosophy and Social Sciences Research, Ministry of Education, China [08JZD0026]
- National Foundation of Natural Science [31400889]
- 521 training programme foundation for the talents
- Science Foundation of Zhejiang Sci-Tech University [13062175-Y]
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The current study examined the longitudinal association between posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms and posttraumatic growth (PTG) as well as the moderating role of trait resilience in that association. Participants completed measures of PTSD symptoms, PTG, and trait resilience at 12, 18, and 24 months after the Wenchuan earthquake. Results showed that after adjusting PTG at wave 1, PTSD symptoms at wave 1 were positively and significantly related to PTG at wave 2 for low-resilience individuals, but not for individuals with the other two levels (middle and high) of trait resilience. After adjusting PTSD symptoms at wave 1, PTG at wave 1 was positively and significantly related to PTSD symptoms at wave 2 for middle-resilience individuals, but not for individuals with the other two levels (low and high) of trait resilience. No other cross-lagged correlations were significant. Implications of the results for psychological service providers are discussed.
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