Does personal growth initiative (PGI)—the tendency to be proactive about one's personal development—impact adaptive beliefs about life quality among survivors of mass violence, such as ethnopolitical warfare or genocidal violence? One-hundred-and-twenty-three survivors of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda and 179 Tamil individuals affected by the civil war in Sri Lanka completed assessments of PGI, satisfaction with one's past life, current life satisfaction, and anticipated future life satisfaction. High levels of PGI were associated with an adaptive inclining trajectory of life satisfaction (Past < Present < Future) in both samples. These results indicate that PGI is associated with adaptive beliefs about one's identity and well-being among war-affected populations, and supports future interventions targeting PGI among those communities.

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检查卢旺达和斯里兰卡种族政治暴力幸存者的个人成长主动性和主观生活满意度轨迹之间的关联

个人成长主动性 (PGI)——对个人发展积极主动的倾向——是否会影响大规模暴力（例如种族政治战争或种族灭绝暴力）幸存者对生活质量的适应性信念？1994 年针对卢旺达图西族的种族灭绝的 123 名幸存者和 179 名受斯里兰卡内战影响的泰米尔人完成了 PGI、对过去生活的满意度、当前生活满意度和预期未来生活的评估满意。在两个样本中，高水平的 PGI 与生活满意度的适应性倾斜轨迹（过去 < 现在 < 未来）相关。这些结果表明，PGI 与受战争影响的人群中关于一个人的身份和福祉的适应性信念有关，