Psychological Development and Education ›› 2017, Vol. 33 ›› Issue (3): 328-336.doi: 10.16187/j.cnki.issn1001-4918.2017.03.10

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The Roles of Hope and Rumination in the Relationship between Optimism and Posttraumatic Growth among Adolescents after Ya'an Earthquake

ZHOU Xiao1,2, WU Xinchun1, WANG Wenchao1   

  1. 1. Beijing Key Laboratory of Applied Experimental Psychology, School of Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China;
    2. School of Social Work, I-Core Research Center for Mass Trauma, Tel Aviv University 69978, Israel
  • Online:2017-05-15 Published:2017-05-15

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Abstract: To examine the mediating roles of hope and rumination in the relationship between optimism and PTG, 416 adolescents were assessed by adopting traumatic exposure questionnaire, optimism questionnaire, hope questionnaire, rumination hope questionnaire, and posttraumatic growth at two and a half years after Ya'an earthquake. The mediating roles would be assessed by using structural equation model, wherein the traumatic exposure would be controlled because its importance. The results found that after controlled traumatic exposure, optimism has a directly and positive effect on PTG. Additionally, optimism have indirect and positive effect on PTG by hope, also indirectly and positively predict PTG by a multiple mediating path that from hope to deliberate rumination. Moreover, optimism can have negative and indirect effect on PTG by decreasing intrusive rumination, and lead to less deliberate rumination, and in turn lead less PTG. Taking these results together, optimism still play positive promoting role in PTG. Nevertheless, there are some non-significant paths from optimism to PTG, for example, optimism have non-significantly indirect effect on PTG by intrusive rumination, by hope via intrusive rumination to deliberate rumination, and by deliberate rumination. Implications for clinical practice and research were then discussed along with study limitations.

Key words: adolescents, optimism, hope, rumination, PTG

CLC Number: 

  • B844

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