%0 Journal Article
%T Post-traumatic growth as positive personality change: developing a measure to assess within-person variability
%J Journal of research in personality
%D 2017
%A Blackie, Laura E. R.
%A Jayawickreme, Eranda
%A Tsukayama, Eli
%A Forgeard, Marie J. C.
%A Roepke, Ann Marie
%A Fleeson, William
%V 69
%N 
%P 22-32
%X 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>
%G en
%I Elsevier Publishing
%@ 0092-6566
%U http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2016.04.001