. Hadis Amiri; . Maysam Rezapour; . Nouzar Nakhaee; . Mahmoud Nekoei‑Moghadam; . Yunes Jahani
Volume 11, Issue 6 , July 2021, , Pages 1-6
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Traumatic events and psychological damage are common. Identifying differenttypes of traumatic events contributes to the development of psychopathology and can be very helpfulin ...
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BACKGROUND: Traumatic events and psychological damage are common. Identifying differenttypes of traumatic events contributes to the development of psychopathology and can be very helpfulin macroeducational and treatment planners. The current study extracted the patterns (overlap)of different traumatic events that Iranian college students commonly experience, with the aim ofunderstanding their association with posttraumatic growth (PTG) and religiosity.MATERIALS AND METHODS: Four hundred and sixty‑six students from Kerman universitiescompleted a cross‑sectional survey about religion, and questions about PTG and traumatic eventshave experienced in the past 5 years. The latent class analysis (LCA) was used for extracting patternsof traumatic events, and the one‑way ANOVA test was used to compare PTG and religiosity acrossthese classes in Iranian college students.RESULTS: The LCA revealed that a three‑class solution had an adequate relative and absolutefit. The three classes were labeled and characterized as multiple‑traumatic events (2.9%),intermediate‑traumatic events (31.1%), and low‑traumatic events (66.0%). In ANOVA results forPTG and Duke University Religion Index (DUREL) domains across classes, individuals in themultiple‑traumatic classes had the lowest score of PTG and DUREL domains.CONCLUSION: Although the current study showed the relative frequency of multiple‑traumaticevents in Iranian students is low, individuals categorized in this class had the lowest PTG, and thesefindings reveal the necessitation of planning and interventions for PTG.
