What makes a thriver? Unifying the concepts of posttraumatic and postecstatic growth

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Mangelsdorf, Judith ^a,b   Eid, Michael ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (Germany)

Author keywords

life event; meaning making; post traumatic growth; postecstatic growth; posttraumatic growth; social readjustment rating scale (SRRS); thriver; thriver model

Indexed keywords

EID: 84976386423     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00813     Document Type: Article

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