Predictors of Posttraumatic Growth Following Bone Marrow Transplantation for Cancer.

Abstract

There is growing recognition that the experience of cancer can have a positive as well as a negative psychological impact. This longitudinal study sought to identify predictors of posttraumatic growth among cancer patients (N ϭ 72) undergoing bone marrow transplantation. Greater posttraumatic growth in the posttransplant period was related to younger age; less education; greater use of positive reinterpretation, problem solving, and seeking alternative rewards as coping strategies in the pretransplant period; more stressful appraisal of aspects of the transplant experience; and more negatively biased recall of pretransplant levels of psychological distress. Findings partially support J. A. Schaefer and R. H. Moos's (1992) model of life crises and personal growth and also suggest that temporal self-comparisons contribute to the experience of posttraumatic growth.

Investigation of the Impact of Sports, Exercise and Recreation (ser) Participation on Psychosocial Outcomes in a Population of Veterans with Disabilities Using the Sports Outcome Research Tool and Comprehensive Uniform Survey (Sportacus). A Longitudinal Study

“…Posttraumatic growth has been positively associated with social support, active coping, and participation in leisure activities [53][54][55][56][57]. The results of a thematic analysis revealed that leisure influenced at least four aspects of life experiences related to growth: 1) providing opportunities to find personal strengths and abilities, 2) building companionship and meaningful relationships, 3) making sense of traumatic experience and finding meaning in everyday life, and 4) generating positive emotions.…”

Quality of life after allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation

“…20,[62][63][64][65][66] Specifically, patientreported benefits include an enhanced appreciation for life, different priorities, love and appreciation for family and friends, and greater religious or spiritual beliefs. 20,64,65 Reported benefits are unrelated to physical functioning and other QOL indices. 20,66 These data suggest that patients are often able to reinterpret the adversity of HCT into a meaningful life narrative despite reduced QOL.…”

Psychometric characteristics of the Posttraumatic Growth Inventory in a Hungarian sample

“…A legtöbb kutatásban a nem professzionális társas támogatás (Widows, Jacobsen, Booth-Jones, & Fields, 2005;Zwahlen és mtsai, 2010) és az önfeltárás (Lev-Wiesel & Amir, 2003;Posta, 2010;Taku, Tedeschi, Cann, & Calhoun, 2009) is növekedést facilitáló tényezônek bizonyult, bár egyes vizsgálatok nem találtak ilyen irányú összefüggést (Cordova, Cunningham, Carlson, & Andrykowsky, 2001). A személyiségvonások közül a rugalmasság (Posta, 2010;Bossick, 2009), diszpozicionális optimizmus (Posta, 2010;Bossick, 2009), extraverzió, nyitottság (Tedeschi & Calhoun, 1996), koherenciaérzés, szívósság (Bossick, 2009) Maercker, 2006).…”