The Relationship Between Childhood Psychological Maltreatment And Posttraumatic Growth: Mediating Roles Of Social Support And Psychological Resilience

With the development of positive psychology, posttraumatic growth(PTG) has gradually applied in areas by domestic scholars such as natural disasters, diseases, and army. However, the study is rarely that to investigate mechanism between the experience of psychological abuse and post-traumatic growth among college students. To solve this problem, we review theoretical literature about the relationship between traumatic events and post-traumatic growth. On the basis of previous studies, this article had the Childhood Psychological Abuse Scale, Posttraumatic Growth Inventory(PTG), Social Support Research scale(SSRS), Resilience Scale(RS), tested 700 college students from Heilongjiang Province. SPSS21.0 and Mp1us7.0 was applied analysis data. This article studied the status quo of the childhood psychological abuse and the posttraumatic growth among the undergraduates, discussed the intermediary effects caused by the social support and psychology resilience between the childhood psychological abuse and the posttraumatic growth. The results show that:1. According demographic variables, psychological abuse showed difference on variables of only kid or not and parent education; Social support showed difference on variables of only kid or not, home location and grade. Psychology resilience and posttraumatic growth had no significant differences in demographic variables.2. Each dimension of psychological abuse, social support, psychology resilience and posttraumatic growth had remarkable correlation.3. Psychological abuse had an obvious negatively predictable function to social support, psychology resilience and posttraumatic growth; social support was significantly positively predictors of psychology resilience and posttraumatic growth; psychology resilience obvious positively predicted to posttraumatic growth.4. Social support and psychology resilience respectively played an important mediating role in relations between psychological abuse and posttraumatic growth.5. The suppressing effect was emerged when social support and psychology act as the chain mediating roles between childhood psychological abuse and posttraumatic growth.