The role of personality traits, stress coping styles and spiritual beliefs on post-traumatic growth in patients recovered from covid-19

The purpose of this research was to predict post-traumatic growth based on personality traits, coping styles with stress, and spiritual beliefs in patients who recovered from covid-19. The research method is descriptive-correlational. The statistical population included all patients who recovered from covid-19 in the year 2021-2022 in Tehran's 20th district in Tehran's Bo Ali and Amirul Munin hospitals. Of these, 216 people who were selected as available were analyzed as samples. In order to collect information in this research, Tedeschi and Kalon's post-traumatic growth questionnaires (PTGI, 1996), Bass et al.'s personality traits (PCQ, 1975), Andler and Packer's stress coping strategies (SCSE, 1990), spiritual beliefs Parsian and Doninig (SQ, 2009) was used. The results showed that 35% of the changes in the criterion variable, i.e. post-traumatic growth, can be explained by the variables of personality traits, stress coping strategies, and spirituality (p < 0.05). It is concluded that personality traits, stress coping styles, and spiritual beliefs can be related to post-traumatic growth in patients who have recovered from Covid-19.