A study of gender differences on posttraumatic growth in college students of Kashmir

Pages: 610-612
Sadaf Anjum and Shahina Maqbool (Department of Psychology, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh)

Post-traumatic Growth is the positive psychological change experienced as a result of a struggle with challenging life circumstances that represent significant challenges to the adaptive resources of the individual and/or an individual’s way of understanding the world and one’s their place in it. It is an experience of improvement that for some is deeply profound (Tedeschi & Calhoun,1996). In kashmir every individual is traumatized and still they perceived posttraumatic growth in all factors of life. The main aim of the present research is to assess the level of posttraumatic growth in Kashmiri male and female youths between the age group of 18 -21 years. Posttraumatic growth inventory developed by Tedeschi and Calhoun (1996) was administered on 50 males and 50 female students. Results revealed that significant difference was found on overall score of PTGI on male and female youth of Kashmir.