Testing of the Post-traumatic Growth and Adaptation Model: Mid-life Adults
AUTHOR : 이옥희,이지연
INFORMATION : page. 111~133 / 2015 Vol.22 No.3
ABSTRACT
This study investigated the structural relationship among variables concerning post-traumatic
growth(challenge of core belief, centrality of event, intrusive rumination, deliberate rumination,
psychological pain, post-traumatic growth, meaning in life, and satisfaction with life), based on the
post-traumatic growth model(Tirplett et al., 2012). The subjects of study were 617 men and women of
mid-life, and the data were analyzed using SPSS 18.0 and AMOS 18.0. As the result of study, there
were generally three route-processes that reached post-traumatic growth and adaptation. In the first
route in which the challenge of core belief reached post-traumatic growth and adaptation, it was
verified that deliberate rumination was a meaningful factor to reach post-traumatic growth. In the
second route in which centrality of event reached post-traumatic growth and adaptation, it was
verified that centrality of event’ was an important variable in prediction of post-traumatic growth,
rather than the challenge of core belief, and meaning in life intermediated satisfaction with life in
post-traumatic growth. In the third route, it was verified that centrality of event had negative influences
on post-traumatic growth and adaptation. These consequences suggest that growth and pain may coexist
after post-traumatic experience. And they implies that intrusive rumination causes psychological pain, but
deliberate rumination leads us to post-traumatic growth. Also they represent that meaning in life guides
us to satisfaction with life, rather than post-traumatic growth is directly connected with satisfaction with
life.