In recent years, trauma research has shifted from a pathological paradigm which only concerns the maladaptive disorders caused by various traumatic events to an integrated paradigm which take both the negative and positive outcomes of traumatic events into consideration. This research project aims to explore the phenomenon of posttraumatic growth among the victims and exploring the factors that influence people’s degree of perceived posttraumatic growth, and to testify the utility of the posttraumatic inventories in Chinese cultural context in an adolescents sample from a middle school and an adult sample from a community. Specifically, this research will take demographic variables such as gender and ethnic group, personality variables such as gratitude, and other relevant variables such as positive and negative emotion, perceived social support into consideration in investigating the mechanisms of posttraumatic growth among the victims experienced the Sichuan earthquake.
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