Are Psychological Predictors of Well-Being Stable in Oncological Patients? An Investigation on Two Romanian Samples of Cancer Patients from 2007 and 2014

Psychosocial interventions and posttraumatic growth: A meta-analysis.

“…In a randomized controlled trial, expressive writing facilitated growth (measured by the Posttraumatic Growth Inventory [PTGI]; Tedeschi & Calhoun, 1996) for people with PTSD related to military service or sexual assault (Smyth, Hockemeyer, & Tulloch, 2008). Expressive writing also increased growth (short-form Stress Related Growth Scale scores [SRGS]; Park, Cohen, & Murch, 1996) for women with breast cancer, although the lack of a control group prevents strong con-clusions (Kállay & Ba ˘ban, 2008). Disclosure also raised PTGI scores for college students with unresolved stressful experiences and/or subclinical PTSD (Beyer, 2010;Slavin-Spenny, Cohen, Oberleitner, & Lumley, 2011;Ullrich & Lutgendorf, 2002).…”