PO505: Validating a Stress Related Growth Measure for Adolescents

  • PMD: 4
  • Cost: Included in Registration
  • Skill Level: Introduction
  • Poster Session 6: Promoting Social and Emotional Development

Learner Objectives

This session will help participants…

  1. learn about the research status of stress-related growth, especially measurement studies;
  2. understand the factorial structure and other validity evidence for the Stress-Related Growth Scale (SRGS); and
  3. think about the ways to integrate the concept of SRG and its measure in research and practice.

Description

This study examined the validity of the Stress-Related Growth Scale for adolescents. The two factors, self-oriented and others-oriented growth, in conceptualizing and utilizing SRG in research and practice are discussed.

Presenter(s)

Xu (Lilya) Jiang, Temple University
Rahma F. Goran, MS, Temple University

Contributor(s)

Thomas J. Bischoff

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