“…Some studies have reported a positive relationship (e.g., Wild & Paivio, 2003), whereas others have found a negative relationship (e.g., Hall et al, 2008), some a curvilinear relationship (e.g., Kleim & Ehlers, 2009), and others no relationship at all (e.g., Cordova et al, 2007;Salsman et al, 2009). Contradictory results of the impact of benefit finding on posttraumatic outcomes have been attributed to problems of measurement.…”