It is important that we understand the role of significant life events such as failure, adversity, and trauma in human development. However, substantive methodological limitations in research on post-traumatic growth (PTG) has hampered this endeavor. Specifically, with narratives of growth following life challenges likely provide valuable information about the course of lives, retrospective quantitative assessments such as the Post-Traumatic Growth Inventory (PTGI) are flawed in multiple ways. We present new data highlighting the flaws of the PTGI as well and further evidence from a selective review that these measures remain dominant despite their flaws.

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我们是否知道逆境如何影响人类发展？

重要的是，我们要了解重大生命事件（例如失败，逆境和创伤）在人类发展中的作用。但是，创伤后生长研究的实质方法学局限性阻碍了这一努力。具体而言，随着生活挑战之后的成长叙事可能提供有关人生历程的宝贵信息，回顾性定量评估（如创伤后成长清单（PTGI））在多种方面存在缺陷。我们提供的新数据也突出了PTGI的缺陷，并通过选择性审查进一步证明这些措施尽管存在缺陷仍占主导地位。