Post-Traumatic Growth from Life's Most Traumatic Event: Influences on Elders' Current Coping and Adjustment

Autor:	Mary Alice Mills-Baxter, Juliane R. Fenster, Crystal L. Park
Rok vydání:	2005
Předmět:	medicine.medical_specialty Coping (psychology) Stressor Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Physical health Mean age Coping behavior Emotional trauma Emergency Medicine medicine Psychology Psychiatry General Nursing Clinical psychology
Zdroj:	Traumatology. 11:297-306
ISSN:	1085-9373 1534-7656
DOI:	10.1177/153476560501100408
Popis:	This study examined the lasting impact of post-traumatic growth from elders’ most traumatic life experiences. The sample consisted of 83 participants (61 women, 22 men; mean age = 77.9) who reported on their most stressful or traumatic life experience and their post-traumatic growth resulting from these events. They also reported on their current most stressful event and how they coped with this event. One month later, 69 participants reported on their coping with their current most stressful experience, their attitudes towards death, and their mental and physical health. Results suggest that post-traumatic growth from events that occurred even many years earlier may have favorable influences on subsequent coping, death attitudes, and adjustment to recent stressors.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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