The purpose of this study was to clarify emotional and cognitive processes leading to post-traumatic growth for those who experienced psychological trauma. In this study, 229 adults over 19 were participated for questionnaire survey analysis. The surv...
The purpose of this study was to clarify emotional and cognitive processes leading to post-traumatic growth for those who experienced psychological trauma. In this study, 229 adults over 19 were participated for questionnaire survey analysis. The survey consisted of following questionnaires: 1)Rumination-Reflection Questionnaire(RRQ), 2)the Event Related Rumination Inventory in Korean(K-ERRI), 3)Traumatic Experience Schedule, 4)Positive Affect and Negative Affect Schedule(PANAS), 5)Narrative Identity question to evaluate cognitive change, and 6)Post-traumatic Growth Inventory(PTGI). The results of this study showed that neurotic rumination had strong relationship with intrusive rumination rather than deliberate rumination and reflection had significant relationship with deliberate rumination only. The event-related rumination, especially deliberate rumination, had an mediating effect on the relationship between personal ruminative tendency and post-traumatic growth. In addition, rumination affected the cognition and emotion respectively, and then both led to post-traumatic growth process. Furthermore, post-traumatic growth was more strongly influenced by emotional path rather than cognitive path. Results of this study can provide implication for developing clinical program to promote post-traumatic growth as suggesting how to rumination affect post-traumatic growth.