A Cross-Sectional Study on Childhood Trauma and Adversarial Growth among College Students

Abstract

Childhood trauma harms individual's physical and mental health in a short- and long- term. The present study sampled 240 college students to survey the prevalence of childhood trauma, adversarial growth and the relationship between them. The results showed that the prevalence of childhood trauma was 40.8% and 31.6% individuals had one or two type's trauma. Childhood trauma effected adversarial growth significantly. The college students without trauma had higher proportion (about 40%) of adversarial growth than those with trauma (under 10%). The score of growth was decrease as the increasing of number of childhood trauma.