@article{ref1,
title="Association between virtues and posttraumatic growth: preliminary evidence from a Chinese community sample after earthquakes",
journal="PeerJ",
year="2015",
author="Duan, Wenjie and Guo, Pengfei",
volume="3",
number="",
pages="e883-e883",
abstract="OBJECTIVE. Relationship, vitality, and conscientiousness are three fundamental virtues that have been recently identified as important individual differences to health, well being, and positive development. This cross-sectional study attempted to explore the relationship between the three constructs and post-traumatic growth (PTG) in three directions, including indirect trauma samples without post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), direct trauma samples without PTSD, and direct trauma samples with PTSD. <br><br>METHODS. A total of 340 community participants from Sichuan Province, Mainland China involved in the study, most of which experienced Wenchuan and Lushan Earthquake. Participants were required to complete the self-reported questionnaire packages at one time point for obtaining their scores on virtues (Chinese Virtues Questionnaire), PTSD (PTSD Checklist-Specific), and PTG (Post-traumatic Growth Inventory-Chinese). <br><br>RESULTS. Significant and positive correlations between the three virtues and PTG were identified (r =.39-.56; p <.01). Further regression analysis by stepwise method reveled that: in the indirect trauma samples, vitality explained 32% variance of PTG. In reference to the direct trauma sample without PTSD, both relationship and conscientiousness explained 32% variance of PTG, whereas in the direct trauma sample with PTSD, only conscientiousness accounted for 31% the variance in PTG. <br><br>CONCLUSION.This cross-sectional investigation partly revealed the roles of different virtues in trauma context. <br><br>FINDINGS suggest important implications for strengths-based treatment.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="2167-8359",
doi="10.7717/peerj.883",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.883"
}