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Further exploring the impact of cumulative lifetime adversity on life satisfaction, psychological flourishing, and depressive symptoms (2024)
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Current research provides conflicting views of the relationship between cumulative lifetime adversity and dispositional functioning. We examined this relationship in a sample of adults (N = 1009), conducting the analysis three ways: by utilizing a su... Read More about Further exploring the impact of cumulative lifetime adversity on life satisfaction, psychological flourishing, and depressive symptoms.

Clarifying the Virtue Profile of the Good Thinker: An Interdisciplinary Approach (2024)
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What does it mean to be a good thinker? Which virtues work together in someone who possesses good intellectual character? Although recent research on virtues has highlighted the benefits of individual intellectual virtues, being an excellent thinker... Read More about Clarifying the Virtue Profile of the Good Thinker: An Interdisciplinary Approach.

Daily emotional dynamics and changes in posttraumatic growth and posttraumatic depreciation among people living with HIV (2023)
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Objective Posttraumatic growth (PTG), and its negative reflection, posttraumatic depreciation (PTD), are two aspects of response to trauma. This study explores whether daily emotional dynamics (inertia and innovation) can translate into positive v... Read More about Daily emotional dynamics and changes in posttraumatic growth and posttraumatic depreciation among people living with HIV.

Applied Scenarios: Embedding Psychological Literacy in Assessment (2023)
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Psychological literacy refers to the ability of a psychology student to use psychological knowledge, rather than merely learn it, in the context of personal, social, and organizational issues. Embedding psychological literacy in assessment is a criti... Read More about Applied Scenarios: Embedding Psychological Literacy in Assessment.

Broadening our understanding of adversarial growth: The contribution of narrative methods (2023)
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After adversity, individuals sometimes report adversarial growth - positive changes in their identity, relationships, and worldviews. We examined how narrative methods enhanced understanding of adversarial growth compared to standard questionnaires.... Read More about Broadening our understanding of adversarial growth: The contribution of narrative methods.

A Theoretical Qualitative Investigation Exploring Illness Perceptions and Decision-Making About COVID-19 in an Ethnically Diverse UK-Based Sample (2023)
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Purpose: The primary aim of the present investigation was to explore perceptions, experiences, and decision-making relating to the COVID-19 illness as the UK entered into a phase of “living safely with COVID-19”. A secondary aim was to explore how pe... Read More about A Theoretical Qualitative Investigation Exploring Illness Perceptions and Decision-Making About COVID-19 in an Ethnically Diverse UK-Based Sample.

Examining the impact of major life events on the frequency and experience of daily social events (2023)
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Objective: Life events can impact people's dispositional functioning by changing their state‐level patterns of thoughts, feelings, and behavior. One pathway through which this change may be facilitated is changes in the experience of daily social eve... Read More about Examining the impact of major life events on the frequency and experience of daily social events.

Examining the protective influence of posttraumatic growth on interpersonal suicide risk factors in a 6-week longitudinal study (2022)
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Research has found an inverse relationship between posttraumatic growth (PTG) and suicidal ideation in military and community samples that holds when controlling for other suicide risk factors. However, further research is needed into the underlying... Read More about Examining the protective influence of posttraumatic growth on interpersonal suicide risk factors in a 6-week longitudinal study.

Investigating corroboration of self-perceived posttraumatic growth among Sri Lankan Tamil survivors of ethnopolitical warfare through trait, domain, and profile agreement approaches (2022)
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Though research on assessing posttraumatic growth has been severely critiqued, some evidence suggests close others can observe and report changes in individuals following traumatic life events and are sensitive to idiosyncratic ways in which changes... Read More about Investigating corroboration of self-perceived posttraumatic growth among Sri Lankan Tamil survivors of ethnopolitical warfare through trait, domain, and profile agreement approaches.

Trauma exposure and short-term volitional personality trait change (2022)
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Objective: Research into post-traumatic growth (PTG) finds individuals report positive changes in their identity, relationships, and worldviews after trauma. In a pre-registered 16-week longitudinal study, we examined trait change after recent trauma... Read More about Trauma exposure and short-term volitional personality trait change.

What does a personality science approach to post-traumatic growth reveal? (2022)
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Recent research has advocated for the value of conceptualizing post-traumatic growth as positive personality change. However, most research continues to use both methodologically suspect assessment tools and unsupported theoretical assumptions. How c... Read More about What does a personality science approach to post-traumatic growth reveal?.

Do We Know Whether We’re Happier? Corroborating Perceived Retrospective Assessments of Improvements in Well-Being (2022)
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To what extent do our beliefs about how our well-being has improved over time correspond to observed changes? Participants (N = 1,247 from Qualtrics Panels) completed questionnaires measuring dispositional well-being and ill-being (depressive symptom... Read More about Do We Know Whether We’re Happier? Corroborating Perceived Retrospective Assessments of Improvements in Well-Being.

Examining the protective function of perceptions of post-traumatic growth against entrapment and suicidal ideation (2022)
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Background: Recent evidence has found that reporting post-traumatic growth (PTG) from a past stressful life event is associated with lower reports of suicidal ideation. Perceptions of PTG measure the extent to which an individual reports positive cha... Read More about Examining the protective function of perceptions of post-traumatic growth against entrapment and suicidal ideation.

Knowing when someone is resilient: Development and validation of a measure of adaptive functioning among war-affected Sri Lankan Tamils (2021)
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Current measures of adaptive functioning are typically validated using samples from Western populations, which limit their utility in non-Western populations. The present study examines the development and utility of a locally derived measure of adap... Read More about Knowing when someone is resilient: Development and validation of a measure of adaptive functioning among war-affected Sri Lankan Tamils.

Examining Associations Between Major Negative Life Events, Changes in Weekly Reports of Post-Traumatic Growth and Global Reports of Eudaimonic Well-Being (2021)
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Research on post-traumatic growth (PTG) has been compromised by methodological limitations. Recent process-oriented accounts of personality suggest, however, that positive changes may occur through short-term (i.e., state-level) changes in PTG. In th... Read More about Examining Associations Between Major Negative Life Events, Changes in Weekly Reports of Post-Traumatic Growth and Global Reports of Eudaimonic Well-Being.

Examining the functional utility of personal growth initiative in a war-affected Sri Lankan Tamil sample (2021)
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The present study explored personal growth initiative (PGI; Robitschek, 1998)—the extent a person is motivated to and actively sets goals toward achieving self-improvement—and its relationship to functional impairment and life satisfaction among a wa... Read More about Examining the functional utility of personal growth initiative in a war-affected Sri Lankan Tamil sample.

Examining the Longitudinal Associations Between Repeated Narration of Recent Transgressions Within Individuals’ Romantic Relationships and Character Growth in Empathy, Humility, and Compassion (2021)
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This prospective longitudinal study examined whether repeated written narration of relational transgressions was associated with increases in empathy, humility, and compassion over 1 year. Although engagement in reflective and meaning-making processi... Read More about Examining the Longitudinal Associations Between Repeated Narration of Recent Transgressions Within Individuals’ Romantic Relationships and Character Growth in Empathy, Humility, and Compassion.

Are predictions and perceptions of post-traumatic growth a form of ultimate justice reasoning? (2021)
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Researchers have questioned whether self-report questionnaires adequately assess post-traumatic growth (PTG), as it was theorized (positive personality change after trauma), versus assessing a broader coping mechanism. Across four studies, we examine... Read More about Are predictions and perceptions of post-traumatic growth a form of ultimate justice reasoning?.

Post?Traumatic Growth as Positive Personality Change: Challenges, Opportunities and Recommendations (2020)
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Objective Posttraumatic growth typically refers to enduring positive psychological change experienced as a result of adversity, trauma, or highly challenging life circumstances. Critics have challenged insights from much of the prior research on thi... Read More about Post?Traumatic Growth as Positive Personality Change: Challenges, Opportunities and Recommendations.

Examining within-person relationships between state assessments of affect and eudaimonic well-being using multi-level structural equation modeling (2020)
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Prior research has highlighted the possibility that current affect may be interchangeable with state assessments of other dimensions of subjective well-being. In the present study, we conducted a systematic replication and extension by examining the... Read More about Examining within-person relationships between state assessments of affect and eudaimonic well-being using multi-level structural equation modeling.