Traditional research on post‐traumatic growth has utilized methodologically flawed cross‐sectional designs that involve retrospective assessments of post‐traumatic growth. This has resulted in a majority of research in this field suffering from a lack of credibility and reliability. In this special issue, we present nine articles that seek to make innovative conceptual and methodological contributions with the goal of promoting better research practices on post‐traumatic growth. In the introduction to this special issue, we provide an overview of these contributions, and discuss the implications of these articles both to improving future scholarship and to encouraging personality scientists to examine this important phenomenon in the years and decades to come.

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对创伤后成长有更可信的理解。

对创伤后成长的传统研究使用了方法上存在缺陷的横截面设计，这些设计涉及对创伤后成长的回顾性评估。这导致该领域的大多数研究缺乏可信度和可靠性。在本期特刊中，我们介绍了九篇文章，旨在为促进创伤后成长的更好研究实践做出创新的概念和方法论贡献。在本期特刊的引言中，我们概述了这些贡献，并讨论了这些文章对改进未来学术研究和鼓励人格科学家在未来几年和几十年内研究这一重要现象的意义。