“Psychometric properties of the Arabic version of the post-traumatic growth inventory with university students in Jordan

ABSTRACT: Post-traumatic Growth plays a key role to cope with traumatic incidents. The scale for Post-Traumatic Growth Inventory (PTGI) has been used by several researchers in different languages. This study aims to evaluate the Arabic-translated version of the PTGI scale by focusing on its validity in different languages and contexts. This study introduces an Arabic version of the PTGI-M normed with 417 undergraduate students at a large university in Jordan. The internal consistency (Cronbach's alpha) and test-retest reliability of the instrument were 0.97 and 0.82, respectively. Bivariate correlation was used to approximate the concurrent validity (CV). Significant correlations were found between the PTGI-M and the beck depression inventory (BDI), perceived stress scale (PSS), Taylor's manifest an

SUBMITTER: Al-Nasa'h M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10010994 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature