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Posttraumatic growth in accident survivors: openness and optimism as predictors of its constructive or illusory sides.

Posttraumatic growth in accident survivors: openness and optimism as predictors of its constructive or illusory sides.
Posttraumatic growth in accident survivors: openness and optimism as predictors of its constructive or illusory sides.
Posttraumatic growth (PTG), the phenomenon of self-reported positive outcomes of trauma, is assumed to consist of two sides: a constructive and an illusory side. This study investigates the relationship between PTG and its possible illusory and constructive predictors, as well as the moderating role of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) severity. One-hundred two motor vehicle accident (MVA) survivors with full, subsyndromal, and without PTSD were assessed by multiple psychometric measures targeting PTSD severity, posttraumatic growth, optimism, and openness to experience. Hierarchical regression analysis yielded differential interaction effects between PTSD severity and optimism, as well as openness facets pointing to the moderating role of PTSD severity in the prediction of an illusory and a constructive factor in PTG.
posttraumatic growth, posttraumatic stress disorder, resilience, openness, optimism
0021-9762
245-263
Zollner, Tanja
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Rabe, Sirko
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Karl, Anke
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Maercker, Andreas
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Zollner, Tanja, Rabe, Sirko, Karl, Anke and Maercker, Andreas (2008) Posttraumatic growth in accident survivors: openness and optimism as predictors of its constructive or illusory sides. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 64 (3), 245-263. (doi:10.1002/jclp.20441).

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Posttraumatic growth (PTG), the phenomenon of self-reported positive outcomes of trauma, is assumed to consist of two sides: a constructive and an illusory side. This study investigates the relationship between PTG and its possible illusory and constructive predictors, as well as the moderating role of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) severity. One-hundred two motor vehicle accident (MVA) survivors with full, subsyndromal, and without PTSD were assessed by multiple psychometric measures targeting PTSD severity, posttraumatic growth, optimism, and openness to experience. Hierarchical regression analysis yielded differential interaction effects between PTSD severity and optimism, as well as openness facets pointing to the moderating role of PTSD severity in the prediction of an illusory and a constructive factor in PTG.

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Published date: March 2008
Keywords: posttraumatic growth, posttraumatic stress disorder, resilience, openness, optimism

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Local EPrints ID: 50661
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/50661
ISSN: 0021-9762
PURE UUID: 1f10cdba-d9d6-4662-b569-377aa9502cec

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Date deposited: 12 Mar 2008
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 10:09

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Author: Tanja Zollner
Author: Sirko Rabe
Author: Anke Karl
Author: Andreas Maercker

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