Ainah Salcedo
De La Salle University, Philippines
Title: Posttraumatic Relationship Syndrome and Posttraumatic Growth as Mediated by Positivity Resonance: An On-going Study
Biography
Biography: Ainah Salcedo
Abstract
Experiencing any kind of trauma may lead to various detrimental effects in a person’s psychological well being. Past research shows that people who experienced trauma inflicted by close relationships predict more harmful outcomes than those trauma experienced by non-close relationships or by environmental factors like war, near-death experience and life-threatening sickness (Kline et al., 2020). The sense of betrayal felt by the victim from a perpetrator that is from a close relationship complicates the healing process of an individual. Over the past decade, psychotrauma studies have been focused on Posttraumatic Stress Syndrome, primarily on veterans. However, growing research points that not all posttrauma is PTSD, especially if there is a relationship dynamic between the victim and the perpetrator (Vandervoortet et al., 2006). Having this in mind, the researcher would like to focus on trauma experienced from intimate relationships. In light of the growing data in positivity resonance and its potential contribution to the posttraumatic growth of Posttraumatic relationship syndrome cases, this study aims to answer the question: does positivity resonance mediate the relationship between Posttraumatic Relationship Syndrome and Posttraumatic Growth?