Posttraumatic growth among mental health officers who treat soldiers with non-suicidal self-harm/suicidal behavior: The role of cognitive and personality characteristics

Figures & data

Table 1. Pearson correlations between study variables.

	Posttraumatic growth	Centrality of event	Challenge to core beliefs	Self-compassion	Exposure to self- harm and suicidal behavior
Posttraumatic growth	–
Centrality of event	.37***	–
Challenge to core beliefs	.59***	.59***	–
Self- compassion	−0.034	−0.03	−0.08	–
Exposure to self-harm and suicidalbehavior	−0.064	−0.15	−0.096	0.03	–

***p < .001.

Table 2. Results of the regression analysis for the variance in posttraumatic growth.

	B	SEb	ß	t	ΔR^2
Step 1 – Background
Gender	0.055	0.205	0.025	0.267
Profession^a	−0.033	0.235	−0.014	−0.141
Seniority	−0.009	0.024	−0.037	−0.37
Education	−0.08	0.118	−0.076	−0.678
R^2	0.013
Step 2 – Exposure					0.083*
Exposure to self-harm and suicidal behavior	0.175	0.078	0.196	2.229*
R^2	0.051
Step 3 – Exposure squared					0.03*
Exposure squared	−0.177	0.088	−0.174	−1.997*
R^2	0.081
Step 4 – Cognitive variables					0.292***
Challenge to core beliefs	0.529	0.091	0.548	5.813***
Centrality of the event	0.034	0.131	0.025	0.263
R^2	0.373***
Step 5 – Self compassion					0
Self-compassion	0.024	0.125	0.015	0.196
R^2	0.373***
Step 6 – Interaction					0.029*
Exposure X self-compassion	−0.26	0.108	−0.961	−2.404*
R^2	0.402***

*p < .05, **p < .01, ***p < .001.

^a1=social worker 2=psychologist/psychiatrist.

Figure 1. Curvilinear association between exposure to self-harm and suicidal behavior and PTG.

Figure 2. Sources of the interaction between exposure to self-harm and suicidal behavior and self-compassion and its effect on PTG.

Table 3. Source of the interaction between exposure and self-compassion and its effect on posttraumatic growth.

	B	SEb	t
Relationship between exposure and PTG
Low compassion	0.2	0.09	2.14*
Moderate compassion	0.05	0.06	0.83
High compassion	−0.08	0.1	−0.82

*p < .05.

Data availability statement

The datasets generated during the current study are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request.