TITLE:
Reliability and Validity of a French Version of the Posttraumatic Growth Inventory
AUTHORS:
Susan Cadell, Eliana Suarez, David Hemsworth
KEYWORDS:
Posttraumatic Growth Inventory
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Medical Psychology,
Vol.4 No.2,
April
16,
2015
ABSTRACT: In the
context of traumatic stress, the dominant discourse has mainly focused on
distress, thus undermining the role that eustress has in traumatic experiences. One of the few exceptions to this has been the
research on posttraumatic growth, which has generated much interest since its
beginning. There is an increasing interest in posttraumatic growth in various
cultures and hence an expansion of the measure, the Post Traumatic Growth
Inventory (PTGI), into various languages. This article is the first to perform
a rigorous investigation of the psychometric properties of the PTGI, including
the scale and subscale reliability, inter-item and subscale correlations, and
using a CFA approach. The properties are established with a French translation
using two populations of caregivers: those bereaved by HIV/AIDS and parents who
are caring for a child with a life-limiting illness. These properties were
determined for both the original 21 item scale as well as the shortened version.