IJSP Number 1, 2019

49 degree of an event would be connected by more frequent mentions of the growth associated to stress. The evaluations concerning the capacity of controlling the moment of event occurrence were also found in a correlation to mentions of the induced stress mentions, even the correlations aren’t consistent [5]. The secondary evaluations as: the perception of coping processes efficiency leads to a better adaptation, meaning a lower distress, but the relations between the secondary evaluations and the growth and post-trauma evolution weren’t measured. Coping activities presume: - strategies focused on emotions, which allow to the individuals to manage the distress and to focus on a more productive coping; - coping strategies focused on problem, which presume active efforts of changing difficult circumstances - creating a meaning or cognitive coping which allows to the person to change the meaning of the stress factors that can’t be altered. Many researchers proposed models in order to explain the processes through the stress induced growth and the evolution can be produced. Generally speaking these theories suggest that in extremely stressing situations the initial answer of people is of anxiety, distress and confusion. According to the most significant patterns, the most stressing experiences offer more opportunities for experiencing growth and evolution due to their greater impact on breaking the person’s global system of meanings. It is believed that to offer a meaning or the cognitive coping could be a critical aspect of recovery and growth or evolution after stressing events or evolutions. This type of coping contains the trials of the individuals to assimilate or to find a connection between the occurrence of the stressing experience and their beliefs before the crisis, such as the belief in a better or right world and the beliefs in his/her own invulnerability. When a situation is evaluated as a violation, people can change the aspects of the global meaning (e.g. they make changes in their life to prevent future similar occurrence) or they can change the situational meaning (e.g. they identify benefits which will lead to a low dislike). To make changes both in the situational meaning and in the global one can lead to reports of results which presume positive modifications. To find the stress induced growth is just one of the ways through which a meaning is built (e.g. the discrepancy is reduced). Other modalities of building a meaning include the achieving of assignations and re-assignations (the trial to find some less serious and different causes for the stressing situation) and the achieving of positive evaluations (the trial of perceiving the situation from a more positive perspective). The mentions referring to the stress induced growth and evolution can reflect exact mentions of positive changes, which were noticed by the person who

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