Post-traumatic Growth in the Link with Resilience, Self-compassion, and the Personal and Clinical Characteristics in Adolescents with Life-threatening Disease: A Cross-sectional Correlational Study.
Zahra Ghasemi, Manijeh Nourian, Azam Shirinabadi Farahani and 2 others
PMID 39906254WHAT IT FOUND
Adolescents with life-threatening illness reported more post-traumatic growth when resilience was higher.
Self-compassion was linked to growth, but it did not add to growth once resilience was considered. The study did not test an intervention.
Key findings
01Higher resilience and higher self-compassion were each significantly associated with higher post-traumatic growth in adolescents with life-threatening disease.
02When resilience and self-compassion were analysed together, resilience was associated with post-traumatic growth, but self-compassion was not.
03For each one-unit increase in resilience score, post-traumatic growth was associated with increases of 0.74 during chemotherapy and radiotherapy, 1.08 during surgery, and 0.89 during drug treatment.
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What it does not show
The study measured resilience, self-compassion, and growth at one time, so it cannot show that resilience causes growth. Participants were chosen by convenience from two hospitals in Tehran, Iran, so the findings may not apply to adolescents in other countries or settings. The adolescents were literate, at least six months past diagnosis, without recent major stressors or documented mental disorders, so patients who could not read or write, were newly diagnosed, or had recent major stressors or mental disorders were not represented. The paper does not report how many adolescents were approached or recruited, only that six were excluded for incomplete questionnaires.
The easy way to misread this
Do not read the resilience finding as proof that resilience causes post-traumatic growth. The study measured resilience and growth at the same time, so it shows association only.