The personal growth resources of the adult population following the first months of the war in Ukraine

Abstract

We aimed to determine the peculiarities of personal growth resources among the adult population following the first months of the war in Ukraine. The study, which included 1257 respondents (32.3% male and 67.7% female, aged 18–61+ years), used the Posttraumatic Growth Inventory—Expanded, the Brief Resilience Scale, the Professional Hardiness Questionnaire and the General Self‐Efficacy Scale. We found the following descending sequence of expression of the components of personal growth: appreciation of life, spiritual and existential changes, relations to others, new possibilities and personal strengths. Personal resources included resilience, professional commitment, professional control, professional challenge acceptance and self‐efficacy, of which the last two were the most important. All indicators of personal growth were significantly higher in women but were more closely related to personal resources in men. Our findings suggest directions interventions should take to promote the Ukrainian adult population's personal growth and prevent negative mental health consequences.

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“…In particular, such personality traits as extraversion, conscientiousness, openness to experience, and agreeableness. The work performed by Kokun (2023) has showed that the main personal resources for the personal growth of the civil population under war stress are self-efficacy and such components of professional hardiness as professional commitment, professional control and professional challenge acceptance.…”