Posttraumatic Growth:Conception and Measurements

The term of posttraumatic growth refers to positive psychological change experienced as a result of the struggle with highly challenging life circumstance.Individuals as well as groups can gain access to growth from trauma.Posttraumatic Growth Inventory(PTGI) is one of the major tools to measure growth.When developing a tool to measure growth under the background of Chinese culture,it is necessary to consider about the differences between Chinese and Western culture,and on the basis of localized theory,to take open-ended methods and draw lessons from the ways of how to develop a scale to measure growth from existed related researches.