评估创伤后成长库存的响应过程有效性,使用认知面试.
Amaris I Grant1, R Michael Furr1, Eranda Jayawickreme1,2
1Department of Psychology, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
Journal of personality assessment
|January 16, 2026
概括
这项研究质疑创伤后生长 (PTG) 后期测量的准确性. 研究结果表明,人们可能会报告增长而没有完全回忆起创伤前状态,这会影响PTG评估的有效性.
科学领域:
- 心理学 心理学 心理学
- 创伤研究 创伤研究
- 心理健康研究 心理健康研究
背景情况:
- 创伤后成长 (PTG) 被定义为创伤后的积极心理变化.
- 目前的PTG评估在很大程度上依赖于追溯工具,如创伤后成长库存 (PTGI).
- 这些工具假设个人准确地回忆和比较创伤前和创伤后的功能.
研究的目的:
- 检查创伤后生长库存 (PTGI) 的响应过程有效性.
- 调查参与者在完成PTGI时是否参与必要的认知步骤.
- 评估PTGI作为真正创伤后生长的衡量标准的构造有效性.
主要方法:
- 使用PTGI的五个项目进行了21次认知访谈.
- 根据主题分析了参与者的反应.
- 评估了响应PTGI项目所涉及的认知过程.
主要成果:
- 没有参与者完全参与每项理论上要求的认知过程.
- 参与者利用了叙事的连续性,重新评估应对,以及有利于积极变化的文化脚本.
- 报告的积极变化甚至在基础经验是负面的,中性的或有弹性的情况下也被观察到.
结论:
- 这些发现引发了关于PTGI的构造有效性的担忧.
- 由于响应过程的局限性,PTGI可能无法准确地测量真正的创伤后生长.
- 需要进一步的研究来开发更强大的PTG测量.
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