Psychological Development and Education ›› 2015, Vol. 31 ›› Issue (3): 334-341.doi: 10.16187/j.cnki.issn1001-4918.2015.03.11

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The Relationship among Deliberate Rumination, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Posttraumatic Growth: Evidence From Longitudinal Study of Adolescents after Wenchuan Earthquake

WU Xinchun, ZHOU Xiao, CHEN Jieling, ZENG Min   

  1. Beijing Key Laboratory of Applied Experimental Psychology, Institute of Developmental Psychology, School of Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875
  • Online:2015-05-15 Published:2015-05-15

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Abstract: The longitudinal study examined the course and bidirectional relation between deliberate rumination, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and posttraumatic growth (PTG). 245 secondary school students in the most severely affected area were investigated by self-report deliberate rumination, PTSD and PTG questionnaires at 3.5 year 4.5 year and 5.5 year after Wenchuan Earthquake. The cross-lagged structure equation analysis revealed that there are a one-way positively predictive relationship of PTSD onto deliberate rumination from 3.5 year to 5.5 year after earthquake. The bi-directional relationship between deliberate rumination and PTG was found, and PTSD have no directional relation to PTG from 3.5 year to 5.5 year after earthquake. Moreover, PTSD at 3.5 year have a indirectly positive effect on PTG at 5.5 year through deliberate rumination at 4.5 year after earthquake. In addition, the cross-sectional relationship between PTSD and PTG weaken with time change.

Key words: deliberate rumination, PTSD, PTG, longitudinal study

CLC Number: 

  • B844
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