@article{ref1,
title="Perceived and actual posttraumatic growth in religiousness and spirituality following disasters",
journal="Journal of personality",
year="2019",
author="Davis, Edward B. and Van Tongeren, Daryl R. and McElroy-Heltzel, Stacey E. and Davis, Don E. and Rice, Kenneth G. and Hook, Joshua N. and Aten, Jamie D. and Park, Crystal L. and Shannonhouse, Laura and Lemke, Austin W.",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="ePub-ePub",
abstract="OBJECTIVE: Religious/spiritual (R/S) growth is a core domain of posttraumatic growth (PTG). However, research on R/S growth following disasters has over-relied on retrospective self-reports of growth. We therefore examined longitudinal change in religiousness/spirituality following two disasters. <br><br>METHOD: Religious survivors of Hurricanes Harvey (Study 1) and Irma (Study 2) completed measures of perceived R/S PTG, general religiousness/spirituality (&quot;current standing&quot;-R/S PTG), and subfacets of religiousness/spirituality (spiritual fortitude, religious motivations, and benevolent theodicies). In Study 1,451 participants responded at 1-month and 2-months postdisaster. In Study 2, participants responded within 5-days predisaster and at 1-month (N = 1,144) and 6-months postdisaster (N = 684). <br><br>RESULTS: In both studies, perceived R/S PTG was weakly related to longitudinal increases in general religiousness/spirituality and most of its subfacets, but reliable growth in any R/S outcome was rare. Additionally, Study 2 revealed evidence that actual change in psychological well-being is associated with actual (but not perceived) R/S PTG, but disaster survivors tend to exhibit declines in their R/S, spiritual fortitude, and religious motivations. <br><br>CONCLUSIONS: Results suggest disaster survivors are only modestly accurate in perceiving how much positive R/S change they experience following a disaster. We discuss implications for clinical practice, research, and empirical and conceptual work on PTG more broadly.<br><br>© 2019 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0022-3506",
doi="10.1111/jopy.12537",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jopy.12537"
}