Posttraumatic Growth, Resilience, and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) among Refugees

Longitudinal characteristics of resilience among adolescents: A high school student cohort study to assess the psychological impact of the Great East Japan Earthquake

“…Ssenyonga et al . indicated that both resilience and PTG conferred protection against the severity of post‐traumatic stress disorder symptoms in a study of Congolese refugees . Wu et al .…”

“…Ssenyonga et al indicated that both resilience and PTG conferred protection against the severity of posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms in a study of Congolese refugees. 47 Wu et al showed that resilience had a positive effect on PTG (β = 0.32, P ≤ 0.001) among Chinese survivors in the 2012 Yiliang earthquake. 48 Our findings, which indicated highly changeable characteristics of resilience among people who have been exposed to a traumatic event, along with the above similarity, suggested that the overlap between the concepts of resilience and PTG may be larger than is currently being considered.…”

Resilience in Context: A Brief and Culturally Grounded Measure for Syrian Refugee and Jordanian Host‐Community Adolescents

“…There are a few widely used measures of resilience that could potentially be adapted for use with Arabic‐speaking youth, such as the Connor–Davidson Resilience Scale (CD‐RISC; Connor & Davidson, ), the Resilience Scale (Wagnild & Young, ), the Brief Resilience Scale (Smith et al., ), and the Child and Youth Resilience Measure (CYRM; Ungar & Liebenberg, ). The CD‐RISC, the Resilience Scale, and the CYRM have all been used with refugee populations (Klasen et al., ; Ssenyonga, Owens, & Olema, ; Thabet & Thabet, ; Wright et al., ), with CD‐RISC and CYRM applied to adolescent refugees specifically (Abualkibash & Lera, ; Ghannam & Thabet, ; Nathan et al., ; Ziaian, de Anstiss, Antoniou, Baghurst, & Sawyer, ). However, most measures of resilience—including CD‐RISC, the Resilience Scale, and the Brief Resilience Scale—were originally developed with adults and/or are solely implemented with adults (Windle et al., ).…”

Communal coping and rumination in the aftermath of Chile earthquake: Multiple mediation analysis of the relationship between subjective severity and posttraumatic growth

“…Previous studies already confirmed a relationship between positive and negative posttrauma outcomes (Tedeschi & Calhoun, ). Moreover, the subjective perception of severity of the event has a positive and significant relation not only with psychological distress and posttraumatic stress disorder but also with a rather long‐term PTG (Blix, Hansen, Birkeland, Nissen, & Heir, ; Chen, Zhou, Zeng, & Wu, ; García et al, ; Nishi, Matsuoka, & Kim, ; Ssenyonga, Owens, & Kani Olema, ). Despite the recent interest and constantly growing number of empirical studies (García et al, ; Wlodarczyk, Basabe, Páez, Amutio, et al, ; Wlodarczyk, Basabe, Páez, Reyes, et al, ), the mechanisms and processes that underlie these positive relations are still unclear.…”

“…Furthermore, literature frequently depict displays of solidarity and increased community cohesion in the aftermath of natural disasters (e.g., Rodriguez, Trainor, & Quarantelli, 2006;Bonanno, Brewin, Kaniasty, & La Greca, 2010;Norris, Stevens, Pfefferbaum, Wyche, & Pfefferbaum, 2008). Moreover, recent study by Muldoon et al (2017) highlights the role of community identification and collective efficacy as a potential social cure for traumatic stress.…”