APS
2022 APS Annual Convention
Do Self-Reports of Posttraumatic Growth Reflect Actual Growth? Innovative Approaches to Testing Validity
Perceived posttraumatic growth (PPTG) is common, yet whether PPTG reflects positive changes remains unestablished. Three studies addressed PPTG validity using innovative approaches (examining state-trait PPTG, cross-lagged analysis of resource change and observed/latent PPTG, timing of cognitive processes). Results suggest PPTG is largely illusory but also contains a substantial trait component.
Chairs & Discussants
- Crystal ParkChair
University of Connecticut - Daryl Van TongerenDiscussant
Hope University
Presentations
- Does Perceived Post-Traumatic Growth during the COVID-19 Pandemic Reflect Actual Positive Changes?Crystal Park, Joshua Wilt, Beth Russell, Michael Fendrich
- Respondents Do Not Do the Necessary Cognitive Work to Accurately Report Posttraumatic Growth, Even When CoachedAdriel Boals, Elizabeth Griffith, Crystal Park
- Examining Associations between Major Negative Life Events, Changes in Weekly Reports of Post-Traumatic Growth and Global Reports of Eudaimonic Well-BeingEranda Jayawickreme, Laura Blackie, Marie Foregeard, Ann Marie Roepke, Eli Tsukayama
