TY - JOUR
T1 - Posttraumatic growth among spouses of combat veterans
T2 - Adaptive or maladaptive for adjustment?
AU - Dekel, Sharon
AU - Levin, Yafit
AU - Solomon, Zahava
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 Elsevier Ireland Ltd.
PY - 2015/12/15
Y1 - 2015/12/15
N2 - We examined the relationship between posttraumatic growth (PTG) and distress in spouses of trauma survivors. A sample of spouses of combat veterans of the 1973 Yom Kippur War were assessed using questionnaires pertaining to PTG, depression, anxiety, and posttraumatic stress, in 2004 and 2011. Applying cross-lagged modeling strategy, higher PTG levels predicted higher depression and anxiety levels above and beyond initial distress. Thus, psychological growth in spouses of survivors appears to signify subsequent distress.
AB - We examined the relationship between posttraumatic growth (PTG) and distress in spouses of trauma survivors. A sample of spouses of combat veterans of the 1973 Yom Kippur War were assessed using questionnaires pertaining to PTG, depression, anxiety, and posttraumatic stress, in 2004 and 2011. Applying cross-lagged modeling strategy, higher PTG levels predicted higher depression and anxiety levels above and beyond initial distress. Thus, psychological growth in spouses of survivors appears to signify subsequent distress.
KW - Longitudinal study
KW - Posttraumatic growth
KW - Secondary traumatization
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84947128904&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.psychres.2015.09.018
DO - 10.1016/j.psychres.2015.09.018
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C2 - 26384572
AN - SCOPUS:84947128904
SN - 0165-1781
VL - 230
SP - 712
EP - 715
JO - Psychiatry Research
JF - Psychiatry Research
IS - 2
ER -