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Latent Profiles of Posttraumatic Growth: 17 years After the Bam Earthquake in Iran

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2022

Hadis Amiri ,
Maysam Rezapour ,
Nouzar Nakhaee ,
Mahmoud Nekoei-Moghadam ,
S.M. Hosein Musavi Nasab ,
Mahboobe Shamsi Nezhad  and
Yunes Jahani
Hadis Amiri
Affiliation:
Health in Disasters and Emergencies Research Center, Institute for Futures Studies in Health, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran
Maysam Rezapour*
Affiliation:
Department of Paramedicine, Amol School of Paramedical Sciences, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran
Nouzar Nakhaee
Affiliation:
Research Center for Health Services Management, Institute of Futures Studies in Health, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran
Mahmoud Nekoei-Moghadam
Affiliation:
Department of Health in Emergency and Disasters, School of Healthcare Management and Medical Information, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran
S.M. Hosein Musavi Nasab
Affiliation:
Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman, Kerman, Iran
Mahboobe Shamsi Nezhad
Affiliation:
Clinical Psychology, Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman, Kerman, Iran
Yunes Jahani
Affiliation:
Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Faculty Health, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran
*
Corresponding author: Maysam Rezapour, Email: maysam.rezapour@gmail.com.
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Abstract

Objective:

Posttraumatic growth (PTG) is a positive psychological change after challenging life events. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of positive and long-term psychological changes in people who experienced the Bam earthquake.

Methods:

A total of 916 adolescents were surveyed 17 years after the earthquake. Self-report questionnaires were administered to participants. A latent profile analysis (LPA) was conducted to extract the subgroups of adults.

Results:

The LPA identified 5 meaningfully profiles that were characterized based on the pattern of PTG dimensions. The common profile was profile, which perceived very low “relating to others” dimension and medium for other PTG dimensions. Also, the results showed significant differences among gender and age and nonsignificant differences in marital status and education level among the profiles of PTG.

Conclusions:

For stressful situations, the different dimensions of PTG change indirectly in every person. In Bam, some patterns are seen according to PTG after 17 y. Among these dimensions, the part of “relating to others”, has the greatest change. Another conclusion is that according to a relatively high profile for 5 clusters, it seems the impact of 17 y should be less on PTG as the number of extractive patterns is approximately high for the case.

Keywords

posttraumatic growthearthquakelatent profile analysisIran
Type
Original Research
Information
Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness , Volume 17 , 2023 , e127
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© The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Society for Disaster Medicine and Public Health, Inc.

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