Measuring Personal Growth Attributed to a Semester of College Life Using the Posttraumatic Growth Inventory
✍ Scribed by Walter P. Anderson Jr.; Sandra I. Lopez-Baez
- Publisher
- American Counseling Association
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 101 KB
- Volume
- 56
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0160-7960
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✦ Synopsis
In this descriptive exploratory study, the Posttraumatic Growth Inventory (PTGI; Tedeschi & Calhoun, 1996) was used to measure levels of personal growth attributed by college students (N = 117) to a semester of university life in retrospective self‐reports. Results reflect attributions of substantial total growth in the range reported in the posttraumatic studies and attributions of substantial growth to a variety of specific experiences. The results suggest that personal growth as defined by the PTGI is not necessarily adversarial and that personal growth can be intentionally facilitated by educational activities.