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Post?Traumatic Growth as Positive Personality Change: Challenges, Opportunities and Recommendations (2020)
Journal Article
Jayawickreme, E., Infurna, F. J., Alajak, K., Blackie, L. E. R., Chopik, W. J., Chung, J. M., …Zonneveld, R. (2021). Post‐Traumatic Growth as Positive Personality Change: Challenges, Opportunities and Recommendations. Journal of Personality, 89(1), 145-165. https://doi.org/10.1111/jopy.12591

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)
Journal Article
Jayawickreme, E., Tsukayama, E., Blackie, L. E., & Weiss, B. (2021). Examining within-person relationships between state assessments of affect and eudaimonic well-being using multi-level structural equation modeling. Journal of Positive Psychology, 16(5), 691-700. https://doi.org/10.1080/17439760.2020.1818811

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.

A qualitative investigation into the cultural master narrative for overcoming trauma and adversity in the United Kingdom. (2020)
Journal Article
Blackie, L. E. R., Colgan, J. E. V., McDonald, S., & Mclean, K. C. (2023). A qualitative investigation into the cultural master narrative for overcoming trauma and adversity in the United Kingdom. Qualitative Psychology, 10(1), 154-170. https://doi.org/10.1037/qup0000163

Research in the field of narrative psychology has found that redemption—a narrative sequence in which people recount emotionally negative experiences as having positive endings—is a useful mechanism for coping with adversity. Redemption has been view... Read More about A qualitative investigation into the cultural master narrative for overcoming trauma and adversity in the United Kingdom..