RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN POST TRAUMATIC GROWTH AND COPING SKILLS IN UNIVERSITY STUDENTS

Abstract

Post Traumatic Growth (PTG) as a new emerging trend contrary to Post Traumatic Stress Disorder as a result of trauma is main focus of study, which is lacking in Pakistan. Therefore, present study has a rationale to find out the post traumatic growth in university population and its relationship styles of coping skills. Through purposive sampling university students (n=200) comprising 100 Males and 100 Female, graduate and post graduate students with age range 18 and above were selected from different universities of Rawalpindi and Islamabad. After getting demographic information through self developed demographic questionnaire; two instruments were administered i.e, Post Traumatic Growth inventory (Tedeschi & Colhen, 1996) and COPE by Carver (1989) which is available in Urdu translation. Then Pearson product moment correlation was calculated between Post Traumatic Growth and style of coping in university population. Results showed that there is no significant correlation between Post traumatic growth and ability to cope. While females have better post traumatic growth as compared to males.