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1、Journalof7t'aumaticStress,VoL9,No.3,1996ThePosttraumaticGrowthInventory:MeasuringthePositiveLegacyofTraumaRichardG.TedeschiIandLawrenceG.Calhoun1ThedevelopmentofthePosttraumaticGrowthInventory,aninstrumentforassessingpositiveoutcomesreportedbypersonswhohaveexperiencedtraumaticevents,isdescribed.This
2、21-itemscaleincludesfactorsofNewPossibilities,RelatingtoOthers,PersonalStrength,SpbitualChange,andAppreciationofLife.Womentendtoreportmorebenefitsthandomen,andpersonswhohaveexperiencedtraumaticeventsreportmorepositivechangethandopersonswhohavenotexperiencedextraordinaryevents.ThePosttraumaticGrowthI
3、nventoryismodestlyrelatedtooptimismandextraversion.Thescaleappearstohaveutilityindetermininghowsuccessfulindividuals,copingwiththeaftermathoftrauma,areinreconstructingorstrengtheningtheirperceptionsofself,others,andthemeaningofevents.KEYWORDS:perceivedbenefits;trauma;growth;coping.Thereisoverwhelmin
4、gevidencethattraumaticeventscanproducemanynegativephysicalandpsychologicalconsequences.Althoughre-searchershaveextensivelystudiedthenegativeeffectsoftrauma,therehasbeenmuchlessattentionpaidtothepossibilityofpositiveimpactofnega-tiveevents.However,thereisabodyofliteraturesuggestingthatpeopleexposedto
5、eventhemosttraumaticeventsmayperceiveatleastsomegoodemergingfromtheirstrugglewithsuchtragediesasrape(Burt&Katz,1987;Veronen&Kilpatrick,1983),incest(Silver,Boon,&Stones,1983),bereavement(Calhoun&Tedeschi,1989-90;Schwartzberg&Janoff-Bul-man,1991),cancer(Collins,Taylor,&Skokan,1990;Taylor,1983),HIVinfe
6、ction(Schwartzberg,1994),heartattacks(Affieck,Tennen,&Croog,IAdditionaldataareavailablefromtheauthorsattheDepartmentofPsychology,UniversityofNorthCarolinaatCharlotte,Charlotte,NorthCarolina28223.4550894-9867/96/0700-0455509.50/I01996InternationalSocietyfor'n'aumaticStressStudies456TedeschiandCalhoun
7、1987),disasters(Thompson,1985),combat(Sledge,Boydstun,&Rabe,1980),andtheHolocaust(Kahana,1992).Atleastthreebroadcategoriesofperceivedbenefitshavebeenidentified:changesinself-perception,changesininterp
