Psychosocial Factors Contributing to Post Traumatic Growth

By : Kimmi Vaneet Kaur Sethi, Meena Sehgal

Page No: 437-445

Abstract
The objective of the study was to assess the role of different psychosocial factors such as optimism, resilience, perceived social support and spiritual well-being in Posttraumatic Growth among the victims of motor vehicle accident. It was hypothesized that optimism, resilience, perceived social support and spiritual wellbeing will contribute to post traumatic growth. For this purpose, a sample of 50 victims of motor vehicle accident from the different trauma wards of hospitals was selected. Only those subjects were selected who had met with an accident in the last one month and had been recuperating for at least one month. The age range was from 16-35 years. They were administered Posttraumatic Growth Inventory (Tedeschi and Calhoun, 1996), Resilience Scale (Wagnild and Young, 1987), Optimism Test (Seligman, 2010), Perceived Social Support Questionnaire (Nehra and Kulhara, 1987) and Spiritual Well-Being Scale (Ellison, 1985). The results were in line with the prediction.

Authors :
Meena Sehgal : Professor, Department of Psychology, Panjab University, Chandigarh.
Kimmi Vaneet Kaur Sethi : Research Scholar, Department of Psychology, Panjab University, Chandigarh