title: Elaboration on posttraumatic growth in youth exposed to terror: the role of religiosity and political ideology.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  This study aims to examine competing explanations of the relationship between religious and political ideology commitment with posttraumatic growth.
  
  
  METHODS
  Subjects were Israeli youth who were exposed to terror (n = 2,999) aged 13-15. Measures included: posttraumatic growth inventory, religious orientation, ideological commitment, objective and subjective exposure to terror.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Both religiosity and political ideology mediated the effects of exposure and fear on growth. Political ideology but not religiosity, had a moderating effect, such that subjective fear was positively associated with growth only among those with stronger ideologies.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Results support the contention of Terror Management Theory that cultural beliefs have beneficial effects on well being in the face of adversity and emphasize the role of cultural world as effecting growth, beyond trauma.
authors.affiliation: School of Behavioral Science, Netanya Academic College, 1 University St. Kiryat Itzhak Rabin, 42365, Netanya, Israel. laufea@netanya.ac.il
authors.forename: Avital
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Laufer
authors.forename: Zahava
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Solomon
authors.forename: Stephen Z
authors.initials: SZ
authors.lastname: Levine
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior / Q000208:ethnology / Q000523:psychology*; D002648:Child; D003469:Culture; D005239:Fear / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007557:Israel / Q000208:ethnology; D007599:Judaism / Q000523:psychology; D008016:Life Change Events; D008297:Male; D011057:Politics; D012067:Religion; D012069:Religion and Psychology; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D023481:Terrorism / Q000523:psychology*; D014857:Warfare
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