Post-traumatic growth as positive personality change: Challenges, opportunities, and recommendations
Eranda Jayawickreme, Frank J. Infurna, et al. · 2021 · Journal of Personality, 89(1), 145-165
This source is used as challenges evidence across 2 linked claims and 2 related evidence hubs. Its citation record is marked verified; that verifies the source trail, not the truth of any linked claim.
Summary
Critical review arguing that self-reported posttraumatic growth is difficult to equate with durable positive personality change and needs stronger longitudinal evidence.
How this source is used on the map
Keeps the suffering-growth pages balanced by separating real meaning-making from the overclaim that trauma is reliably beneficial.
Citation record
- Authors
- Eranda Jayawickreme, Frank J. Infurna, et al.
- Year
- 2021
- Publication
- Journal of Personality, 89(1), 145-165
- Source type
- Review
- Map role
- challenges
- Credibility level
- primary
- Citation status
- Verified
- DOI
- 10.1111/jopy.12591
- PubMed
- Recorded
- Not recorded
Linked claims
A widespread frame supported by NDE life reviews and post-traumatic growth literature. Cosmic curriculum is interpretation.
Post-traumatic growth (Tedeschi & Calhoun, 1996) is documented across many populations. Not everyone grows; those who do report real change.
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The standard reference for any claim about life-purpose, growth-through-suffering, or meaning-making; it keeps existential claims distinct from evidence claims.
Supports the limited claim that suffering can sometimes be followed by growth without proving that suffering was cosmically intended.