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Thomas Cody

Ms. Jizi

UWRT 1103-006

April 2, 2018

Annotated Bibliography

Reports of Post -Traumatic Growth and Well-Being: Moderating Effect of Defense Style

This source discusses the effects of how peoples varying defense mechanisms can have

different impacts on their post traumatic growth and how they make the end of a traumatic

experience positive in the end. This source describes Post-Traumatic Growth as not negating the

negative consequences of the trauma that they went through but acknowledging all that they have

learned from the traumatic event to make them into the person they became. The source says that

70% of those asked reported having these positive effects. This article corelates the positive

growth to the different defense mechanisms seen in the 153 participants who experienced

different traumas. It discusses the survey used and that the higher you got on a scale of 1-9

indicated a greater use of proper defense mechanisms. This idea helps guide me towards an

answer to my question about the positive outcomes of teenage traumatic events because it helps

present a possible answer and reason why certain people have higher rates of positive growth

than others after traumatic occasions. It presents ones use of defense mechanisms as a possible

reason to determine the positive outcomes of a traumatic event.

This is a credible source not only because it was pulled from the peer edited section of

the libraries database but also because it comes from a journal of social and clinical psychology

from the School of Education, University of Nottingham. This source is also credible because
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there were contributions from three people instead of one getting rid of more biased in the

results. Included at the bottom of the journal there was a long list of sources that they used when

coming to their conclusions which further proves that they did their research and conducted a

sound experiment. Lastly, the journal indicates that the excerpt shown is from volume 36 and if

the source wasn’t credible they would not have that many published journals.
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Source

Boerner, Michaela, et al. “Reports of Post-Traumatic Growth and Well-Being: Moderating Effect

of Defense Style.” Journal of Social & Clinical Psycology, vol. 36, no. 9, Nov. 2017, pp. 723-

737. EBSCOhost, doi:10.1521/jscp.2017.36.9.723.