TY - JOUR PY - 2007// TI - Posttraumatic Growth as a Cognitive Process with Behavioral Components: A Commentary on Hobfoll et al. (2007) JO - Applied psychology A1 - Forstmeier, Simon A1 - Maercker, Andreas SP - 407 EP - 416 VL - 56 IS - 3 N2 - The commentary highlights some of the key points to emerge from the paper by Hobfoll, Hall, Canetti-Nisim, Galea, Johnson, and Palmieri (2007, in this issue) about the relationship between posttraumatic growth and action, psychological functioning, and cognitive processing. In our commentary, we question the sequence of steps that Hobfoll et al. took to critique current theoretical cognitive models of posttraumatic growth. On the basis of the Janus-face model (Maercker & Zöllner, 2004) of posttraumatic growth, we argue that, in addition to a cognitive core, posttraumatic growth may, but does not necessarily, involve an action component.
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