Relationship between social support and resilience with posttraumatic growth: the mediating role of stress coping styles

The aim of this study was to investigation of the relationship between social support and resilience with posttraumatic growth with mediator of stress coping styles among women exposed to trauma in Isfahan. The research design was descriptive correlational. The statistical population consisted women with cancer and bereavement, in which 300 people were selected by purposive sampling. The instruments used in this study included questionnaires of Tedeschi and Calhoun posttraumatic growth, Philips social support, Conner and Davidson resilience and Billings and Moos stress coping styles. The evaluation of the proposed model was analyzed using the path analysis method and Boot strop. The results showed that direct effect of social support, resilience, problem focused coping and emotion focused coping on PTG was significant. Also, boot stop results suggested that role of the mediator of stress coping styles in the relationship between resilience and social support on PTG is significant. These results showed that encourage social support, Resilience and education of problem focused coping can have effective role in PTG and enabling of women exposed to trauma.