Bovero Andrea, Balzani Sarah, Tormen Gabriela, Malandrone Francesca, Carletto Sara
Clinical Psychology Unit, University Hospital "Città della Salute e della Scienza di Torino", 10123 Torino, Italy.
Department of Clinical and Biological Sciences, University of Turin, 10043 Turin, Italy.
J Clin Med. 2023 Dec 23;13(1):95. doi: 10.3390/jcm13010095.
The COVID-19 pandemic was an unprecedented event that further stimulated the debate on the concept of trauma. To increase knowledge about the traumatic potential of the pandemic, the main objective of this study was to identify, through a systematic literature review, the main factors associated with the adaptive outcome of post-traumatic growth caused by COVID-19. Studies were selected from the PsychInfo, Embase, and PubMed databases, and 29 articles were included at the end of the screening process. The identified factors are of different natures, including personal variables such as personality traits, coping, and cognitive strategies used to face adversity, and interpersonal variables, one of the most important of which is the level of social support. In addition, several results confirmed a relationship between post-traumatic growth and post-traumatic stress symptoms, as well as indices related to psychological well-being. Finally, the results are discussed by comparing them with those already present in the literature, as well as with some of the main explanatory models of post-traumatic growth. In this regard, some of the factors identified, such as maladaptive coping, avoidance symptoms, optimism, and low-stress tolerance, suggest the possibility that the process of post-traumatic growth may also be characterized by an illusory dimension.
新冠疫情是一场史无前例的事件，它进一步激发了关于创伤概念的辩论。为了增加对该疫情创伤潜力的了解，本研究的主要目的是通过系统的文献综述，确定与新冠疫情所致创伤后成长的适应性结果相关的主要因素。研究从PsychInfo、Embase和PubMed数据库中选取，筛选过程结束时纳入了29篇文章。所确定的因素具有不同性质，包括个人变量，如人格特质、应对方式以及用于面对逆境的认知策略，还有人际变量，其中最重要的一个是社会支持水平。此外，一些结果证实了创伤后成长与创伤后应激症状以及与心理健康相关指标之间的关系。最后，通过将结果与文献中已有的结果以及创伤后成长的一些主要解释模型进行比较来进行讨论。在这方面，所确定的一些因素，如适应不良的应对方式、回避症状、乐观主义和低压力耐受性，表明创伤后成长过程也可能具有虚幻维度的可能性。
