Use of the revised Posttraumatic Growth Inventory for Children |
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| Authors: | Ryan P. Kilmer Virginia Gil-Rivas Richard G. Tedeschi Arnie Cann Lawrence G. Calhoun Teresa Buchanan Kanako Taku |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC;2. Department of Educational Theory, Policy, and Practice, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA;3. Department of Psychology, Oakland University, Rochester, MI |
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| Abstract: | Posttraumatic growth (PTG; positive change resulting from the struggle with trauma) was examined among children impacted by Hurricane Katrina. The revised Posttraumatic Growth Inventory for Children (PTGI-C-R) assessed PTG at two time points, 12 (T1) and 22 months (T2) posthurricane. The PTGI-C-R demonstrated good reliability. Analyses focused on trauma-related variables in predicting PTG. Child-reported subjective responses to the hurricane and posttraumatic stress symptoms (PTSS) correlated with PTG at T1; however, in the regression, only PTSS significantly explained variance in PTG. At follow-up, T1 PTG was the only significant predictor of PTG. Findings suggest that the PTGI-C-R may assist efforts to understand children's responses posttrauma. |
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