Post-traumatic growth in PhD students during the COVID-19 pandemic

Tu, Allison; Restivo, Juliana L.; O’Neill, Kathryn; Swaminathan, Akshay; Choi, Karmel W.; Lee, Hyunjoon; Smoller, Jordan W.; Patel, Vikram; Barreira, Paul; Liu, Cindy H.; Naslund, John A.

doi:10.1016/j.psycom.2023.100104

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“…Existing studies of PTG have focused, inter alia, on war refugees (Kroo and Nagy 2011), earthquake survivors (Xu and Liao 2011), bereaved parents (Engelkemeyer and Marwit 2008) and police officers (Leppma et al 2018). The COVID-19 pandemic has also contributed to new research on the topic (see, e.g., Chen et al 2022;Tu et al 2023;Vazquez et al 2021). Growing interest in PTG arguably reflects, in part, the fact that it has intuitive appeal; there is something intrinsically uplifting in the idea that "the horror of psychological trauma might have a silver lining; that people might benefit from the experience or even grow toward more optimal functioning" (Westphal and Bonanno 2007, p. 418).…”

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Post-Traumatic Growth, Resilience and Social-Ecological Synergies: Some Reflections from a Study on Conflict-Related Sexual Violence

Clark

2024

Social Sciences

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The concept of post-traumatic growth (PTG) continues to generate significant interest, as reflected in the increasing number of studies. This article makes two novel contributions to existing scholarship on PTG. First, it seeks to demonstrate that the common framing of PTG as positive psychological change is too narrow. To do so, it looks to research on resilience and highlights the shift from person-centred understandings of resilience to more relational approaches that situate the concept in the interactions and dynamics between individuals and their social ecologies (environments). The article’s core argument is that there are social-ecological synergies between resilience and PTG, which, in turn, are highly relevant to how we think about and study growth. Second, the article empirically develops this argument by drawing on a larger study involving victims-/survivors of conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV) in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Colombia and Uganda. It is important to note in this regard that there are no major studies of PTG focused on CRSV, just as scholarship on CRSV has given little attention to PTG (or indeed resilience).

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