Measuring growth through adversity: the influence of the autobiographical memory centrality
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https://doi.org/10.15448/1980-8623.2019.3.30211Keywords:
Posttraumatic Growth Inventory, centrality of events, evidence of validity.Abstract
Posttraumatic growth (PTG) is the experience of positive change that occurs as a result of facing highly challenging adverse situations. The present work investigated whether the external validity evidence of the Post Traumatic Growth Inventory (PTGI) is more consistent when considering the events in which individuals scored high on the Centrality of Events Scale (CES) versus events in which individuals scored low. The CES assesses to what extent the reference event contributed to the formation of individuals’ identity. Participated in the study 317 individuals who had been through a variety of adverse events. The correlations between PTGI scores and social support, meaning in life, life satisfaction, religiosity, and psychological distress became larger and more coherent in the subgroup that scored high in ECE. The results corroborate the conception that only events that lead to a reassessment of individuals’ central beliefs should be included in the PTG studies.
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