| Abstract [eng] |
Kančiauskytė, K. (2021). Relationship Between Traumatic Experiences, Posttraumatic Stress and Resilience in Adolescence. Master‘s thesis. Vilnius: Vilnius University, p. 55. A great part of adolescents at least once in their lifetime experiences a traumatic event. However, traumatic experience not always cause psychopathology. One of the explanations of this may be psychological resilience in adolescents. There is still a complexity and lack of psychological resilience solid definition in literature. In the field of psychotraumatology there is a lack of research about traumatic experiences in adolescents and even less about their psychological resilience. The aim of this study is to estimate the peculiarities of traumatic experiences and posttraumatic stress in adolescents and to assess psychological resilience. The sample consisted of 14-17 aged (M = 15.5; SD = 0.86) adolescents (N = 200, 116 girls) from various regions of Lithuania. In the research was used demographic questionnaire; Child and Adolescent Trauma Screen (CATS) to measure traumatic events; International Trauma Questionnaire (ITQ-CA) to evaluate posttraumatic symptoms; Resilience Scale (RS-14) for psychological resilience. Results showed that 54.0% of participants have experienced at least one traumatic event over the last two years, and 33.3% of them were assigned to Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder risk group. Lower psychological resilience in adolescents is associated with higher number of traumatic experiences and higher risk of PTSD. |
