Abstract
The aim of this study was to examine the relationship of teenagers’ post-traumatic growth (PTG) and personality and coping style by developing a mediating model with matched data from 772 adolescents. The sample consisted of 772 adolescents (mean age = 12.93, SD = 1.80) from several middle schools located in the areas that were most severely affected by the earthquake. Five factor model of personality, Coping Style Scale and Post-traumatic Growth Inventory were used to measure personality, coping and PTG of adolescents respectively. The results showed that the mean of PTG is 2.87 (SD = 0.93). Moreover, the relationship between personality and PTG is mediated by cognitive coping. The model’s fit indices indicated a good fit (CFI = 0.996, TLI = 0.962, NFI = 0.994, RMSEA = 0.055). Results showed that a positive cognition coping style mediated the relationship between personality and PTG.
Highlights
In recent years, trauma research has paid as much attention to adolescent survivors as to adult survivors (e.g., Alisic et al, 2011; Hafstad et al, 2011; Kilmer et al, 2014)
The Big Five were taken as exogenous variables, and post-traumatic growth (PTG) and positive cognition coping as endogenous variables
A good fit was indicated by the model fit indices: χ2/df = 3.295, Comparative Fit Index (CFI) = 0.996, Tucker-Lewis Index (TLI) = 0.962, Non-normed Fit Index (NFI) = 0.994, Root Mean Square Error of Approximation (RMSEA) = 0.055
Summary
Trauma research has paid as much attention to adolescent survivors as to adult survivors (e.g., Alisic et al, 2011; Hafstad et al, 2011; Kilmer et al, 2014). 1), has received considerable attention in research literature on adolescence (Zoellner and Maercker, 2006; Clay et al, 2009; Taku, 2011). There is some debate about the PTG of adolescents. Is PTG defensive or self-presentational (McMillen, 2004). When people report growth in the immediate months following loss or trauma, some part of this growth might indicate the strategy of self-protection, which may be an important aspect of the growth process (Davis and McKearney, 2003).
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