The relationship of posttraumatic growth to peritraumatic reactions and posttraumatic stress symptoms among Sri Lankan university students
✍ Scribed by Shannon E. McCaslin; Piyanjali de Zoysa; Lisa D. Butler; Stacey Hart; Charles R. Marmar; Thomas J. Metzler; Cheryl Koopman
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 106 KB
- Volume
- 22
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0894-9867
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✦ Synopsis
Abstract
The relationships of posttraumatic growth to peritraumatic reactions and posttraumatic stress symptoms were examined in 93 Sri Lankan university students who had experienced a traumatic life event. Posttraumatic growth was associated with peritraumatic dissociation and posttraumatic stress symptoms, but was not associated with peritraumatic emotional distress. Results indicated a curvilinear relationship between peritraumatic dissociation and posttraumatic growth and between posttraumatic stress symptoms and posttraumatic growth. In a regression model predicting posttraumatic growth scores, each of the quadratic relationships of peritraumatic dissociation and posttraumatic stress symptoms to posttraumatic growth were statistically significant, and combined accounted for 22% of the variance. Results suggest that moderate levels of peritraumatic dissociation and symptoms are most associated with the greatest levels of growth.