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Abstract
The concept of post-traumatic growth (PTG) continues to generate significant interest, as reflected in the increasing number of studies. This article makes two novel contributions to existing scholarship on PTG. First, it seeks to demonstrate that the common framing of PTG as positive psychological change is too narrow. To do so, it looks to research on resilience and highlights the shift from person-centred understandings of resilience to more relational approaches that situate the concept in the interactions and dynamics between individuals and their social ecologies (environments). The article’s core argument is that there are social-ecological synergies between resilience and PTG, which, in turn, are highly relevant to how we think about and study growth. Second, the article empirically develops this argument by drawing on a larger study involving victims-/survivors of conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV) in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Colombia and Uganda. It is important to note in this regard that there are no major studies of PTG focused on CRSV, just as scholarship on CRSV has given little attention to PTG (or indeed resilience).
Original language | English |
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Article number | 104 |
Journal | Social Sciences |
Volume | 13 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 8 Feb 2024 |
Bibliographical note
This research was supported by the European Research Council under grant number 724518Keywords
- conflict-related sexual violence
- post-traumatic growth
- resilience
- social ecologies
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