@article{ref1,
title="Post-traumatic growth as positive personality change: developing a measure to assess within-person variability",
journal="Journal of research in personality",
year="2017",
author="Blackie, Laura E. R. and Jayawickreme, Eranda and Tsukayama, Eli and Forgeard, Marie J. C. and Roepke, Ann Marie and Fleeson, William",
volume="69",
number="",
pages="22-32",
abstract="Earlier work has defined post-traumatic growth (PTG) as positive personality change, but measurement of this construct has relied almost exclusively on cross-sectional and retrospective assessments. The aim of this study was to use an experience-sampling procedure to measure the extent to which PTG manifested in individuals' everyday lives after a recent highly stressful or traumatic adverse event (compared to a control group). In doing so, we developed a state measure of PTG. The factor structure of state PTG was comparable to trait PTG, there was significant variability in individuals' PTG from moment-to-moment, but individuals' trait PTG was unrelated to their state PTG. Moreover, individuals who had experienced a recent adversity did not differ from control participants on state PTG.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0092-6566",
doi="10.1016/j.jrp.2016.04.001",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2016.04.001"
}