Assimilation and Accommodation Processes Following Traumatic Experiences

The impact of witnessing athletic injury: A qualitative examination of vicarious trauma in artistic gymnastics

“…According to Payne et al (2007), individuals will be inherently motivated to pursue wellbeing and fulfilment after trauma as long as that drive is supported by the social environment. The role of the coach was highlighted as particularly important by participants.…”

“…Overall, indications are that approach strategies will assist the athlete in coping with the traumatic experience. Payne and colleagues (Payne, Joseph, & Tudway, 2007) suggested that the availability of coping resources and a supportive environment might enable an individual to engage in approach coping behaviours such as using social support.…”

“…Subsequently, athletes who had previously believed that they were invulnerable to harm cannot assimilate trauma information and may need to reconsider (accommodate) their beliefs based on a realization that injury is possible and has occurred in others. When the assumptive world is revised to take into account the trauma-related information, then such individuals can be said to have accommodated their experiences (Payne et al, 2007). This process of accommodation can either be in a positive or negative direction depending on the meaning attributed to the traumatic event.…”

Meaning Reconstruction in Bereaved Mothers: A Pilot Study Using the Biographical Grid Method

“…Grid data were analyzed and interpreted at both content and structural levels (see Feixas, Geldschlager, & Neimeyer, 2002;Jankowicz, 2004;Neimeyer, 1993, for a detailed review or repertory grid analysis techniques). The aim of the analysis was to build an impression of the mother's construal style, to examine the degree of integration versus disorganization in her identity development, and to consider whether changes on certain constructions could be regarded as adaptive (i.e., PTG) or maladaptive (i.e., complicated grief) in nature (Neimeyer, 2004a;Neimeyer et al, 2000;Payne, Joseph, & Tudway, 2007;Sewell, 1996). When analyzing the results from the HGRC, for the purposes of this study, an overall assessment of grief distress was obtained by calculating an average item rating across the 49 items (five factors) of the HGRC that measure grief symptomology.…”

Living with Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) : a test of the meaning making model of coping.

“…This process is known as assimilation and is more likely than its counterpart, accommodation (changing global meaning to make it fit with appraised meaning) (Payne, Joseph, & Tudway, 2007).…”