Limited research has examined the impact of religious trauma on sexual minority Christians and what factors these individuals utilize to maintain their faith after trauma. This study sought to address this concern by examining the psychological, physical, and spiritual effects o…
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Life Course Theory’s (Elder, 1998) paradigmatic themes of historical time and place, linked lives, timing of events, and human agency were applied to explore the experiences of Poles who survived the Second World War in Poland and the impact of intergenerational transmission of …
The 2019 Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) pandemic has spurred a major global crisis. Collective trauma is inevitable. Compared to posttraumatic stress, relatively little research has been conducted on posttraumatic growth. This study examined the associations between individualis…
The purpose of this study was to explore several personal and work-related variables associated with posttraumatic growth (PTG) levels in professional firefighters employed in a large fire district in south Florida. First, the researcher identified common factors in professional…
Psychological research has demonstrated a wide variety of reactions to traumatic experiences and has sought theories for why some individuals experience negative, debilitating effects of traumatic exposure, and others develop posttraumatic growth. Further, prevalence rates of tr…
Trauma is a popular but poorly defined concept. As a psychological phenomenon, people use the term trauma to refer to a range of diagnosable conditions as well as to a generalized, subclinical feeling of distress. As a community-level phenomenon, collective trauma has been conce…
Problem: Posttraumatic growth has been defined as the positive psychological and behavioral changes that come about in the aftermath of a struggle with traumatic life events. The literature notes the existence of posttraumatic growth among survivors of intimate partner violence,…
Traumatic events come in all shapes and sizes, and yet research continually demonstrates an adaptive occurrence that is found among individuals who are able to find meaning and experience positive psychological change. The term posttraumatic growth is used to describe this pheno…
A small but expanding body of research has sought to investigate the role of religion and spirituality in coping and posttraumatic growth. Recently, researchers have begun to focus on the phenomenon of spiritual growth following trauma, specifically that of cancer patients and s…
The purpose of this study was to explore the Christian leader’s process of meaning making after a traumatic event. A qualitative narrative inquiry was conducted with six participants to explore how perceived relational engagement with God during ritualized spiritual practices af…
This study’s primary purpose was to examine how a law enforcement officer’s (LEO’s) religiosity might predict their production of vicarious posttraumatic growth (VPTG). There has been limited research regarding religiosity and VPTG within law enforcement (LE). This study sought …
Posttraumatic growth has been found to have positive benefits in one’s life following bereavement (Feigelman, Jordan, & Gorman, 2009). Multiple factors have been studied to determine their relationship to PTG, with findings suggesting that resiliency (Bensimon, 2012), social sup…
Research indicates that a history of childhood sexual abuse (CSA) has adverse effects on later parenting (Kim, Trickett, & Putnam, 2010). However, preliminary research studies demonstrate the positive role of posttraumatic growth (PTG), the positive psychological gains after the…
As a result of adversity, trauma, or maltreatment, a child’s primary defense is to engage in self-blame in order to maintain a belief in a safe world. Without intervention, these adaptive strategies may continue to shape the way survivors relate to themselves and make meaning ou…
Active duty service members are regularly exposed to highly traumatic events. Commonly, individuals exposed to trauma experience positive changes as a result of the trauma they experienced. The likelihood of these changes occurring can be positively or negatively influenced by c…
Meaning-making coping is an essential process for recovery from combat trauma. The meanings that combat veterans make after combat trauma, the meaning-based processes they utilize, and the social interactions they experience have not been compared across outcomes. This study was…
The purpose of this study is to investigate 2 research questions: Do pre-deployment religiosity among combat military service members and level of combat exposure predict posttraumatic growth? And, do the level of combat exposure and changes in religiosity predict posttraumatic …
U.S. military veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts are at risk for developing adverse mental health symptoms post-deployment, but may also report experiences of growth after serving in these conflicts. The aim of the present study was to examine the role of prayer copi…
There are millions of refugees and displaced persons around the world. Refugees often experience multiple stressors and traumas across the various stages of their journey such as witnessing political upheaval, loss of property and loved ones, a perilous journey, and difficulty i…