SynthesisJournal of clinical psychology in medical settings2009
Posttraumatic growth and optimism in health-related trauma: a systematic review.
Synthesis in Journal of clinical psychology in medical settings, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
19 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Current evidence on the prospective predictors and trajectories of posttraumatic growth and depreciation in adult women with breast cancer: a systematic review of longitudinal studies.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2026Pooled it
- Correlates of Post-traumatic Growth Following a Myocardial Infarction: A Systematic Review.Journal of clinical psychology in medical settings · 2021Pooled it
- Associations among resilience, post-traumatic growth, and quality of life in older adults hospitalized with hip fracture: a cross-sectional mediation analysis.Frontiers in physiology · 2026Article
- Strength-based parenting improves depression outcomes and promotes posttraumatic growth in earthquake survivors: a longitudinal study.BMC psychology · 2025Article
- Posttraumatic Growth in U.S. Military Veterans: Results from the National Health and Resilience in Veterans Study.The Psychiatric quarterly · 2024Article
- Hope, optimism, and pessimism as predictors of positive and negative psychological changes related to the COVID-19 pandemic in Slovak adults.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Prioritizing Positivity, Styles of Rumination, Coping Strategies, and Posttraumatic Growth: Examining Their Patterns and Correlations in a Prospective Study.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Factors associated with post-traumatic growth in response to the COVID-19 pandemic: Results from a national sample of U.S. military veterans.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2021Article
- Posttraumatic Growth in Postlingually Deaf Patients With Cochlear Implants: The Effect of Stress-Coping Strategies, Sociodemographics, and Deafness-Related Factors.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- Article
- Analysis of post-traumatic growth status and its influencing factors in patients with facial palsy.Chinese neurosurgical journal · 2018Article
- Posttraumatic Growth Outcomes and Their Correlates Among Young Adult Survivors of Childhood Cancer.Journal of pediatric psychology · 2015Article
- Determinants of psychological resistance and recovery among women exposed to assaultive trauma.Brain and behavior · 2015Article
- Posttraumatic growth in post-surgical coronary artery bypass graft patients.Health psychology open · 2015Article
- Article
- Posttraumatic stress and posttraumatic growth among low-income mothers who survived Hurricane Katrina.Journal of consulting and clinical psychology · 2013Article
- Post-traumatic growth among an ethnically diverse sample of adolescent and young adult cancer survivors.Psycho-oncology · 2013Article
- The experience of acculturative stress-related growth from immigrants' perspectives.International journal of qualitative studies on health and well-being · 2013Article
- Personality, posttraumatic stress and trauma type: factors contributing to posttraumatic growth and its domains in a Turkish community sample.European journal of psychotraumatology · 2012Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
3 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Posttraumatic growth (PTG) research is an emerging area of empirical study, especially within the field of clinical health psychology. Much of the research in this area has thus far focused on determining the correlates and predictors of PTG. This systematic review aimed to evaluate the association between posttraumatic growth and dispositional optimism, specifically in relation to health traumas. Empirical studies that met the inclusion criteria were reviewed according to specific evaluation criteria. Results regarding the relationship between dispositional optimism and posttraumatic growth were found to be equivocal. A number of conceptual and methodological issues were identified and discussed in relation to the field of PTG research. Future directions for research are provided.
Indexed as
Identifiers
19730997What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.