IJSP Number 1, 2019

46 diseases that threatened their life or other traumatizing experiences mentioned that the stress factor was very positive or even that “it was the best thing that ever happened to me”. The more rigorously empirical researches, even rare ones, also showed that many people experienced the growing up which was induced by stress and they progressed in many ways as a result of some extremely stressing situations, such as: mourning, cancer, infarct, political detention and shipwreck. Of course, not everyone speaks about experiences as the growth. In fact it is important that if there are positive changes or areas where people progress this doesn’t mean that they didn’t suffer or that they evolved in all the domains of their life. On the other hand many studies offered convincing proofs that many people have success for real, in many ways and they quite experience an authentic growing up as a consequence of some stressing situations. The challenge for this new development in the research of stress and coping is to determine why some people succeed or have as an experience a great personal growth as a consequence of the stressing events and others succeed less or at all [3]. People’s characteristics – including their personalities, beliefs, resources, knowledge and behaviours resulted along coping process- are considered- by many researchers- to be among the most powerful determiners of the way the individuals face their physical health, and the psychological one – when they have to confront to some stressing experiences. These characteristics together with situational factors can also determine the degree the people succeed or grow by their response to the traumatising and stressing situation [3]. Due to the news of this conceptual development, the studies focused on the positive results of stressing experiences used different terminologies in order to describe these phenomena and a standard lexicon hasn’t been developed [6]. In this article, the growth refers to any number of positive modifications that a person mentions or says that he/she experiences as a consequence of some stressing experiences; as it was described by diverse authors – these positive modifications can be connected to coping abilities or life philosophy, values and goals. On the other hand, the post-trauma success refers to a higher level of functioning in some fields of life, as a consequence of a confrontation to a stress factor. Positive modifications reflected in reports of the growth connected to stress, which is very possible to go to an evolution, but the empirical connections haven’t been settled yet. Until now most part of empirical research- from this area of positive changes as a consequence of the stressing life events- focused on the growth induced by stress [6]. The study of coping traumas and other stressing experiences is focused on the person’s responses to these circumstances, meaning the trials they do, both for diminishing the suffering and the solving of their problematic conditions, which diminish or overpass their resources. So, there are theories that say the interpretations people give to an event determine the way they respond, linked to emotional