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How Resilience and Social Support Promote Post-Traumatic Growth after Wenchuan Earthquake: An Integrated Perspective
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People could recover and obtain growth after traumatic experience. Two vital protective factors for post-traumatic growth (PTG) are resilience and social support. However, it remains unclear how the two factors affect PTG. Some research demonstrated that resilience could indirectly promote PTG though social support, while other researchers found that social support could indirectly promote PTG through resilience. Integratively considering, the present study tested whether these two perspectives simultaneously tenable. We recruited 2336 high school students from the Wenchuan earthquake-stricken area to participate in our survey. Scales of Connor-Davidson Resilience, Perceived Social Support and Post-traumatic Growth were joined in one questionnaire. After filtering the invalid questionnaires, 2150 samples (aged 15–18 years old, M = 16.21, SD = .79; 844 females) remained for further analyses. The results demonstrate that resilience, social support and PTG are significantly correlated with each other. Resilience partly mediates the relationship between social support and PTG, meanwhile social support partly mediates the relationship between resilience and PTG. It supports the integrated perspective that resilience and social support can directly promote PTG and indirectly promote PTG through each other. Therefore, in the psychological assistance of people endured adversity, we can cultivate their internal resilience and help them reconstruct their external social support resources, so that they would integrate internal and external resources to achieve more post-traumatic growth.
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“University students, who are in a critical period in terms of physical and mental development, have a high degree of plasticity in terms of cognitive development, which presents a great opportunity for Posttraumatic Growth (PTG) (Xin et al., 2021).”
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- Authors
- Xin, Y., Liu, C., Peng, X., Fu, H., & Li, L.
- Affiliations
- Southwest University of Science and Technology (CN)
- Sichuan University (CN)
- Shenzhen University (CN)
- Chengdu Normal University (CN)
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- Research Square
- Published
- 2021-05-20
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- W3164057339
- Cited by
- 5
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- Citations by year
- 2025: 2 · 2024: 1 · 2023: 1 · 2021: 1
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- posted content
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- doi.org
- Locations
- Research Square (acceptedVersion, cc-by)
- Funders
- Southwest University of Science and Technology
- Southwest University
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Resilience and Mental Health
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health
- Keywords
- posttraumatic growth, resilience, social support, Wenchuan earthquake, high school students, mediation, protective factors, disaster recovery, psychological support
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