Trauma characteristics and posttraumatic growth: The mediating role of avoidance coping, intrusive thoughts, and social support.

Abstract

Relationships between trauma characteristics and PTG appear to be explained through the presence of avoidant coping strategies, intrusive thoughts, and the individual's social environment, which could be the focus of intervention efforts to promote positive change. (PsycINFO Database Record

The role of ruminations in the relation between personality and positive posttraumatic changes resulting from struggling with cancer

“…The adaptive role of intrusive thoughts in the occurrence of positive posttraumatic changes is also stressed by Brooks, Graham-Kevan, Robinson, and Lowe (2018), who showed that intrusive thoughts mediated the relationship between interpersonal trauma and PTG.…”

A Dual-Model of Posttraumatic Stress and Posttraumatic Growth in a Community Sample of Female Conflict-Related Sexual Violence Survivors from Bosnia & Herzegovina

“…By considering the stability of this dimension of coping as personal resource, strengthening its capacity through psychoeducation, guidance or coaching nourishes the opportunity to promote PTG. Equally, a reduction in avoidance coping strategies has been shown to enhance PTG following different types of trauma (Brooks et al, 2018), which may prevent maladaptive strategies prolonging distress long-term (Zoellner & Maercker, 2006).…”

“…With regard to psychosocial factors, it is understood that coping is the process by which people manage their stress following a traumatic event; either by doing something to alter the source of the stress, or by managing the emotional reactions associated with it (Carver, Scheier, & Weintraub, 1989). Several scholars (Brooks, Graham-Kevan, Robinson, & Lowe, 2018;Elderton, Berry, & Chan, 2017;Ullman, 2014) have found approach coping styles (where a person seeks to resolve the stressor) to be positively correlated with PTG in people with experiences of interpersonal violence;…”

“…This occurs particularly as a result of the difficulty in obtaining retrospective data in certain populations and a reliance on cross-sectional studies, and therefore an inability to make causal inferences (Cole & Lynn, 2010). Given the evidence, the most likely interaction is that events themselves do not result directly in PTG (Brooks et al, 2018), but individuals will respond to stress with a mixture of resiliencepromoting resources and vulnerability to mental illness (Kuwert et al, 2014; Shakespeare-Finch & Lurie-Beck, 2014)-a dual mechanism-rather than PTG falling on the 'adaptive' end of a single spectrum of post-trauma adjustment (Tedeschi & Calhoun,1996). This results in multiple indirect relationships between trauma, PTG and PTSD that may be impacted by psychosocial factors such as coping.…”

A Dual-Model of Posttraumatic Stress and Posttraumatic Growth in a Community Sample of Female Conflict-Related Sexual Violence Survivors from Bosnia & Herzegovina

“…On the basis of the literature outlined above (Brooks et al, 2018;Elderton et al, 2017;Kuwert et al, 2014), and the findings of our previous study (Anderson et al, 2019) a model of PTG was defined. The 6 core assumption is that the relationship between CRSV and PTG is mediated by psychosocial factors such as coping.…”