Title of article :
Commentaries Growing Pains: Commentary on the Field of Posttraumatic Growth and Hobfoll and Colleagues’ Recent Contributions to it
Author/Authors :
Lisa D. Butler، نويسنده ,
Issue Information :
روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2007
Pages :
12
From page :
367
To page :
378
Abstract :
The field of research on benefit-finding and growth following traumatic experience lacks consensus with respect to some central conceptual questions, and a number of these issues are apparent in the research reported by Stevan Hobfoll and his colleagues. In this commentary I briefly discuss, and at times dispute, some of the assertions and assumptions in this target article that I believe reflect these broader issues, including that: psychosocial gains (or benefits) and psychological growth are equivalent, reporting gains (or benefits) represents maladaptive efforts at coping, posttraumatic growth (PTG) is necessarily linked with positive psychological adjustment, and trauma symptoms represent poor adjustment following traumatic event exposure. I also discuss the intriguing proposal of this research: that action is essential to true growth. Les recherches sur la maturation et les avantages que l’on peut tirer d’une expérience traumatisante sont en désaccord sur des aspects théoriques majeurs, et certains de ces problèmes apparaissent dans l’étude présentée par Stevan Hobfoll et ses collègues. Dans ce commentaire, je discute brièvement et parfois conteste certaines des affirmations et hypothèses de cet article de référence qui, je pense, renvoie à des questions plus vastes telles que: les gains (ou bénéfices) psychosociaux et le développement psychologique sont équivalents; signaler des gains (ou des bénéfices) représente un effort inapproprié pour faire face à la situation; le développement post-traumatique est nécessairement en relation avec une adaptation psychologique positive; les symptômes traumatiques traduisent une adaptation faible suite à l’exposition à l’évènement pénible. Je discute aussi cette idée curieuse selon laquelle l’action est essentielle au vrai développement.In their target article, Stevan Hobfoll and his colleagues describe an extensive series of studies documenting trauma symptoms and psychosocial resource gains, and their relationships to other factors, among Israeli citizens living under terrorist threat. Five main issues that stand out in this paper are discussed in the following commentary. Two pertain to the enduring challenge of determining the status of differing conceptions related to growth and establishing definitional parameters, two concern questions regarding the psychosocial correlates of growth, and the final one relates to the unique hypothesis proposed in this paper—that true growth requires the translation of thought into action
Journal title :
Applied psychology an international review
Serial Year :
2007
Journal title :
Applied psychology an international review
Record number :
834866
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