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Coping and posttraumatic growth: A longitudinal comparison of two alternative views.

Author(s) -

Simon Kunz,

Stephen Joseph,

Szilvia Geyh,

Claudio Peter

Publication year - 2018

Publication title -

rehabilitation psychology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.673

H-Index - 66

eISSN - 1939-1544

pISSN - 0090-5550

DOI - 10.1037/rep0000205

Subject(s) - coping (psychology) , posttraumatic growth , psychology , posttraumatic stress , clinical psychology , psychotherapist

In the current study, we aimed to examine two possible explanations for why higher levels of posttraumatic growth (PTG) were repeatedly found to be predicted by both approach- and avoidance-oriented coping, focusing on individuals recently diagnosed with a spinal cord injury (SCI). First, negative changes (posttraumatic depreciation, PTD) may moderate the association between PTG and the two types of coping, indicating that PTG reflects avoidance of PTD for some individuals, but a constructive view on posttraumatic life changes for others. Second, it may be that a flexible use of different types of coping strategies (coping flexibility) enables the experience of PTG.

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