Post-traumatic growth as positive personality change: Developing a measure to assess within-person variability

Journal of Research in Personality

Volumn 69, Issue , 2017, Pages 22-32

  Blackie, Laura E R ^a,d   Jayawickreme, Eranda ^a   Tsukayama, Eli ^b   Forgeard, Marie J C ^c   Roepke, Ann Marie ^c   Fleeson, William ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adversity; Daily well being; Experience sampling; Post traumatic growth

Indexed keywords

EID: 84964599015     PISSN: 00926566     EISSN: 10957251     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jrp.2016.04.001     Document Type: Article

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