Core Beliefs

The Relationship of Core Belief Challenge, Rumination, Disclosure, and Sociocultural Elements to Posttraumatic Growth

Cassie M. Lindstrom Ph.D.
Arnie Cann Ph.D.
Lawrence G. Calhoun Ph.D.
Richard Tedeschi, Ph.D.
January 1, 2013
Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy

This study investigates the impact of challenging core beliefs, rumination, self-disclosure, and sociocultural elements on the development of PTG.

Significant challenge to the assumptive world appears to be an important correlate of, and perhaps causal antecedent to, PTG.
from The Relationship of Core Belief Challenge, Rumination, Disclosure, and Sociocultural Elements to Posttraumatic Growth

The relationship of challenge to core beliefs, rumination, disclosure, and some sociocultural elements to posttraumatic growth (PTG) were explored. Participants were college students enrolled in psychology classes who reported having experienced a stressful event within the past 2 years and who completed measures in groups. Findings suggested that challenge to core beliefs was the main predictor of PTG, and that a very large proportion of the sample had encountered themes of PTG in their sociocultural contexts.

Read the Article “The Relationship of Core Belief Challenge, Rumination, Disclosure, and Sociocultural Elements to Posttraumatic Growth” https://doi.org/10.1037/a0022030

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Cassie M. Lindstrom Ph.D.
Arnie Cann Ph.D.
Lawrence G. Calhoun Ph.D.
Richard Tedeschi, Ph.D.

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