Abstract

The article deals with the pressing issue of phenomenology of personality changes under post-traumatic growth. According to modern studies, traumatic events do not always inevitably lead to psychiatric disorders or dysfunctionality of life, they can also cause productive changes in the personality's life, so-called the post-traumatic growth. Scientific sources on the problem researched give grounds to believe that positive effects of post-traumatic growth are manifested in three main areas: attitude towards oneself, interpersonal relations, and philosophy of life. Research materials have been collected based on the analysis of domestic and international scientific professional psychological editions and periodicals for the period 2006–2016. It has been established that post-traumatic growth, in addition to qualitative transformational changes, can contribute to preservation, recovery and improvement of the personality's state of mental health as the highest individual and social value that promotes its social and psychological adaptation to the new forms of comprehending the reality.

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