dc.contributor.advisor | Smith, Craig (Craig Alexander) | |
dc.contributor.advisor | Kirby, Leslie D. (Leslie Deneen) | |
dc.contributor.advisor | Saylor, Megan | |
dc.contributor.author | Kramer, Lindsay B. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2012-04-14T19:30:03Z | |
dc.date.available | 2012-04-14T19:30:03Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2012-04-11 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1803/5075 | |
dc.description | Individuals develop core attitudes and beliefs that bring a sense of reality and purpose to their lives. After a stressful life event, these attitudes and beliefs are questioned. One is forced to learn to cope and reevaluate these assumptions. By using a survey, I looked at specifically at how individuals determined resilient coped with the event and achieved positive growth and transformation. This thesis was completed for PSY 296B, Honors Seminar, with Professor Megan Saylor. | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | Individuals develop core attitudes and beliefs that bring a sense of reality and purpose to
their lives. They make up one’s assumptive world. After a particular trauma or stressful life
event, one’s assumptive world is disrupted because individuals are confronted with inconsistent
data that cannot be readily assimilated with their preexisting assumptions. Thus, he or she is
forced to learn to cope with the situation and reappraise, or reevaluate, his or her core attitudes
and beliefs. Successful coping and flexible adaption to changing demands of stressful
experiences is referred to as psychological resilience. By using a survey that questioned
participants about a stressful event, I hypothesized that resilient individuals would utilize
accommodative-focused coping to maintain their assumptions and be able to achieve positive
growth and transformation. It was found that resilient individuals maintained all assumptions,
except in believing that the world is still meaningful. In addition, resilience was found to be
predictive of using accommodative-focused coping and of experiencing positive growth after a
stressful event. Thus, this research implies that a resilient individual is unable to justify why the
event occurred to a decent and worthy person. | en_US |
dc.description.sponsorship | Thesis completed in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the Honors Program in Psychological Sciences | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
dc.publisher | Vanderbilt University | en_US |
dc.subject | Resilience | en_US |
dc.subject | Coping | en_US |
dc.subject | Assumptive World | en_US |
dc.subject.lcsh | Stress (Psychology) | en_US |
dc.subject.lcsh | Adjustment (Psychology) | en_US |
dc.subject.lcsh | Resilience (Personality trait) | en_US |
dc.title | Resilient Individuals Reform Their Assumptive Worlds after Stressful Life Events | en_US |
dc.title.alternative | Resilient individuals | en_US |
dc.type | Thesis | en_US |
dc.description.school | Vanderbilt University | en_US |
dc.description.department | Psychological Sciences | en_US |