Tracing the Empirical Boundaries of Resilience and Posttraumatic Growth: Implications for Generativity and Communal Coping

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Inherent to the human experience is the desire to find good in traumatic experiences, and these positive responses to stress are often framed as resilience or posttraumatic growth. Resilience is often defined as the successful adaption to adversity ; whereas posttraumatic growth describes the positive changes emerging from adverse experiences. Despite their potential overlap, the differences between posttraumatic growth and resilience remain unclear. This manuscript considered the respective factor structures of resilience and posttraumatic growth, confirmed their empirical differences, and articulated the conceptual and theoretical implications of this distinction in the coping process.