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http://dx.doi.org/10.14346/JKOSOS.2016.31.6.105

Disaster Victims' Post-trauma Risk, Posttraumatic Growth and Subjective Well-being - Social Support as a Mediator and Income as a Moderator -  

Sim, Olivia S. (Department of Psychology, Yonsei University)
Sohn, Young Woo (Department of Psychology, Yonsei University)
Park, Sang Hyun (National Disaster Management Institute)
Yoon, Ji Won (National Disaster Management Institute)
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Journal of the Korean Society of Safety / v.31, no.6, 2016 , pp. 105-112 More about this Journal
Abstract
The current study examined the relationships between disaster victims' post-trauma risk and posttraumatic growth, and the mediational role of social support for this relationships. In addition, we tested the hypothesis that income status would moderate the relationship between post-trauma risk and subjective well-being. Two hundred disaster victims completed Post-trauma Risk Checklist (PRC), Posttraumatic growth scale, Social support scale and Concise Measure of Subjective Well-Being (COMOSWB) as well as questions about their demographic characteristics. Results showed that those with high post-trauma risk demonstrated significantly higher levels of posttraumatic growth as compared to those with low post-trauma risk and social support partially mediated this relationship. Also, high levels of post-trauma risk predicted low levels of recent subjective well-being. Participants with high income obtained higher subjective well-being than did those with low income among high post-trauma risk groups. Implications for post-trauma risk and posttraumatic growth are discussed.
Keywords
disaster victim; post-truma risk; posttrumatic growth; subjective well-being; social support;
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