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| Published: September 05, 2024
Post-Traumatic Growth: Lessons from Historical Figures on Resilience and Transformation
NET (Psychology), Ph.D. Scholar, Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar University, Agra (U.P.), India Google Scholar More about the auther
Professor and Head, Department of Psychology, S.R.K (P.G.) College, Firozabad (U.P.), India Google Scholar More about the auther
DIP: 18.01.173.20241203
DOI: 10.25215/1203.173
ABSTRACT
The difficulties that human beings face today range from pandemics to threats to their well-being, such as violence, abuse, and loss. These incidents can leave a profound impact on individuals and their communities. This paper explores Post-Traumatic Growth (PTG) in the context of the narratives of Rama, Arjuna, Gautam Buddha, Chandra Gupta Maurya, and Mahatma Gandhi highlighting the roles of social support and self-efficacy. This exciting integration of history with psychology studies PTG through the lives of historical figures. PTG is defined as positive psychological change experienced through tremendous adversity. Story analysis reveals how such figures managed anxiety, stress, or trauma and translated it into deep personal development. The growth of self-efficacy in overcoming obstacles and social support networks are two important themes here. These historical narratives continue to provide timeless lessons in resilience and transformation, offering solutions to the contemporary global challenges. By studying such cases, individuals and communities can learn how to overcome adversity and achieve progress.
Keywords
Post-Traumatic Growth (PTG), Narrative Study, Social Support, Self-Efficacy, Resilience, Psychological Transformation, Historical Figures
This is an Open Access Research distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any Medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
© 2024, Gupta, D. & Chaubey, A.B.
Received: July 18, 2024; Revision Received: September 01, 2024; Accepted: September 05, 2024
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ISSN 2348-5396
ISSN 2349-3429
18.01.173.20241203
10.25215/1203.173
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Published in Volume 12, Issue 3, July-September, 2024