The Relationships Between Posttraumatic Growth and Psychological Resilience in Individuals with Chronic Disease

The aim of this study is to investigate the relationships between posttraumatic growth and psychological resilience in individuals with a chronic disease. This study is of descriptive-relational type. The study was carried out in a training and research hospital between October and December 2022. In total, 875 people, 490 of whom were women (56.0%) and 385 of whom were men (44.0%), older than 18 years old, participated in the study. Descriptive Features Form (DSF), Post-trauma Growth Scale (PTGS) and Brief Psychological Resilience Scale (BPRS) were used in the study. According to correlation analyses, a statistically weak positive significant relation was found between total PTGS score and total BPRS scores (r=0. 124**, p