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Parental adjustment, family functioning, and posttraumatic growth among Norwegian children and adolescents following a natural disaster

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ID9051258
AuthorsGertrud Sofie Hafstad (0000-0003-1162-6861, Norwegian Centre for Violence and Traumatic Stress Studies), Virginia Gil-Rivas, Virginia Gil‐Rivas (0000-0001-8677-1233, University of North Carolina at Charlotte), Ryan P Kilmer (0000-0001-8388-091X, University of North Carolina at Charlotte), Sabine Raeder (0000-0002-4227-2878, University of Oslo)
Year2010
Volume80
Issue2
Pages248-257
Publication date2010-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Journal of Orthopsychiatry (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0002-9432 • E-ISSN: 1939-0025
PublisherAmerican Psychological Association (APA) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1111/j.1939-0025.2010.01028.x
PMID20553518
OpenAlexW2018535898
LanguageEN
Citations received36
References cited42

This study investigated the degree to which parental symptomatology and characteristics of the family environment related to posttraumatic growth (PTG) among children and adolescents who had been directly exposed to the 2004 tsunami in Thailand. One hundred five 6- to 17-year-olds (M = 11.9 years, SD = 3.3) and their parents (N = 67) were interviewed approximately 10 months and 2 years 5 months after the tsunami. The parents' self-reported PTG was a significant predictor of PTG in their children, suggesting that social processes play a role in the development of PTG in youth. Parental self-reported posttraumatic stress symptoms did not predict PTG in their children nor did youth's ratings of family cohesion, but parental tsunami-related sick leave related to lower levels of PTG reported by their children. Overall, these findings imply that elements of parents' functioning can affect children's positive adaptation after a disaster and highlight the need to assess potential parental influences and those of other sources of support in the child's environment after trauma. Attending to such factors holds salience for efforts to promote adaptation and facilitate PTG

Affect (linguistics) · Developmental psychology · Norwegian · Posttraumatic growth · Clinical Psychology · Medicine · Migration, Health and Trauma · Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research · Psychology · Resilience and Mental Health

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