Correlation Between Posttraumatic Growth and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms Based on Pearson Correlation Coefficient

2016/11/22 by An-Nuo Liu, Lulu Wang, Lu-Lu Wang +5 · 158 citations
Medicine · Psychology · #Clinical psychology #Confidence interval #Correlation #Correlation coefficient #Internal medicine #Medicine #Meta-analysis #Migration, Health and Trauma #Negative correlation #Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient #Positive correlation #Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research #Posttraumatic growth #Posttraumatic stress #Psychiatry #Psychology #Resilience and Mental Health #Statistics

paper · doi:10.1097/nmd.0000000000000605

published in The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease 205(5), 380-389 (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins)

openalex publication_date 2016/11/22 · openalex created_date 2016/11/30 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/25

Abstract

The literature on posttraumatic growth (PTG) is burgeoning, with the inconsistencies in the literature of the relationship between PTG and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms becoming a focal point of attention. Thus, this meta-analysis aims to explore the relationship between PTG and PTSD symptoms through the Pearson correlation coefficient. A systematic search of the literature from January 1996 to November 2015 was completed. We retrieved reports on 63 studies that involved 26,951 patients. The weighted correlation coefficient revealed an effect size of 0.22 with a 95% confidence interval of 0.18 to 0.25. Meta-analysis provides evidence that PTG may be positively correlated with PTSD symptoms and that this correlation may be modified by age, trauma type, and time since trauma. Accordingly, people with high levels of PTG should not be ignored, but rather, they should continue to receive help to alleviate their PTSD symptoms.

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