The affective tone of narration and posttraumatic growth in organ transplant recipients

• Authors: Mariusz Zięba , Mateusz Zatorski , Marta Boczkowska , Jolanta Gozdowska , Rafał Kieszek , Wojciech Laskowski
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The aim of the study was to verify the hypothesis that positive affective tone of narratives is connected to the experience of posttraumatic growth among transplant patients. Kidney transplant patients (N = 51) and liver transplant patients (N = 48) participated in the study. In the first stage, about 10 weeks after transplant, the participants told two stories about important, freely chosen events from their lives. During the second meeting 10-12 months later we measured posttraumatic growth. Results indicated that the affective tone of narratives about past events was associated with the level of post-traumatic growth measured 10-12 months later. This proves that the affective tone of narratives about life, understood as a relatively constant individual characteristic, promote posttraumatic growth.

Keywords

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narratives; affective tone; posttraumatic growth

• Publisher: Committee for Psychological Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Polish Psychological Bulletin
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 46
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 376-383

Dates

published

2015-09-01

online

2015-11-17

Contributors

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Mariusz Zięba

• SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Poznań Faculty, Poland

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Mateusz Zatorski

• SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Poznań Faculty, Poland

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Marta Boczkowska

• SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities in Warsaw, Interdisciplinary PhD Program, Poland

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Jolanta Gozdowska

• Department of Transplantation Medicine and Nephrology, Medical University of Warsaw, Institute of Transplantology, Warsaw, Poland

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Rafał Kieszek

• Department of General and Transplantation Surgery, Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland

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Wojciech Laskowski

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Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/ppb-2015-0044