• DOI:10.1177/2167702615615866
Corpus ID: 146429612

Posttraumatic Growth—An Antecedent and Outcome of Posttraumatic Stress

@article{Blix2016PosttraumaticGA,
  title={Posttraumatic Growth—An Antecedent and Outcome of Posttraumatic Stress},
  author={I. Blix and M. Birkeland and M. B. Hansen and T. Heir},
  journal={Clinical Psychological Science},
  year={2016},
  volume={4},
  pages={620 - 628}
}

• I. Blix, M. Birkeland, +1 author T. Heir
• Published 2016
• Psychology
• Clinical Psychological Science

There is a gap in the literature concerning the temporal course, and the bidirectional nature, of the relationship between posttraumatic growth (PTG) and posttraumatic stress symptoms. This longitudinal study investigated PTG and posttraumatic stress in individuals directly exposed to the 2011 Oslo bombing (N = 240). To investigate the relationships between PTG and posttraumatic stress 10 (T1) and 22 (T2) months after the bombing, a cross-lagged autoregressive model was applied. High levels of… Expand

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