Abstract
This study was designed to adapt and to assess the reliability and factor structure of an Italian translation of the full and short form of the Posttraumatic Growth Inventory. A sample of 1,244 Italian adults who had experienced a range of adverse life events participated in this study. Five models of the underlying structure of the Posttraumatic Growth Inventory were tested via confirmatory factor analyses. Analyses of both the short and full form of the PTGI provided support for the original correlated five-factor structure. Multigroup confirmatory factor analysis supported the invariance of the Posttraumatic Growth Inventory across gender.
Notes
Note. N = 1,244. S-B χ2 = Satorra-Bentler chi-square; CFI = comparative fit index; NFI = normed fit index; RMSEA = root mean square error of approximation; CI = 90% confidence interval.
***p < .001.
Note. N = 1,244. All of the correlation coefficients were significant at p < .001. The upper diagonal contains latent variable correlations, and the lower diagonal contains indicator correlations.
a Kendall's rank-order correlation coefficients.
*p < .05; **p < .01.