Type of Document	Dissertation
Author	McCoy, Rene M.
Author's Email Address	renemccoy@comcast.net
URN	etd-04122010-181018
Title	An Examination of the Relationship Between Resilience and Symptoms of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Among Social Work Students at Florida State University
Degree	Doctor of Philosophy
Department	Social Work, College of
Advisory Committee	Advisor Name Title Bruce Thyer Committee Chair Nicholas Mazza Committee Member James P. Sampson University Representative
Keywords	Resilience Resiliency Ego-Resiliency Posttraumatic Stress Disorder PTSD
Date of Defense	2010-04-05
Availability	unrestricted
Abstract Resilience has been defined to include the recovery from traumatic experiences (Block & Block, 1980, and Bonanno (2005), but this assumption had not been empirically tested until now. By using the Ego-Resiliency Scale (Klohnen, 1996), the Trauma Recovery Scale (Gentry, 2006), part of the Traumagram Questionnaire (Figley, 1989), and the Impact of Events Scale – Revised (Weiss & Marmar, 1997), this idea was tested in a non-clinical sample of 242 social work students from Florida State University. It was found that resilience and symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder were inversely related as expected, but not significantly. With a Pearson Product correlation coefficient of -.077, it would only be statistically significant at the .268 level. These findings provide evidence that resilience does not mean recovery from traumatic experiences. This new data will require further research exploration to clarify what is meant by resilience.
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