Retrospective and prospective measures of post-traumatic growth reflect different processes: longitudinal evidence of greater decline than growth following a hematopoietic stem-cell transplantation

Table 5 Prospective Effects of Five Facets of Mindfulness Prior to Hospitalisation for HSCT (Time 0) on Retrospective Measure of Growth (PTGI) at Time 2 and Change in Growth Between Time 1 and Time 2

	Five Facets Mindfulness Questionnaire (FFMQ)
	Observing	Describing	Acting with awareness	Non-reacting	Non-judging
Retrospective Measure of Growth at Time 2 (PTGI)
Relating to Others	0.30**	0.33**	0.13	0.16	−0.11
New Possibilities	0.28*	0.27*	0.08	−0.04	− 0.26*†
Personal Strength	0.24*	0.28*	0.21+	0.02	−0.17†
Spiritual Change	0.30**†	0.22+	0.05	0.08	−0.21 + †
Appreciation of Life	0.30**	0.37***	0.26*	0.01	−0.29*
Total Score	0.32**	0.34**	0.16	0.06	−0.24*†
Change in Growth (Time 2 – Time 1)
Positive orientation to others	0.21	0.19	0.22	0.26*	0.09
Personal Growth subscale	0.05	0.11	−0.15	0.04	0.14
Brief Strengths Inventory	0.31*	0.29*	0.19	0.18	0.23+
Intrinsic Spirituality scale	−0.06	0.01	0.14	0.17	0.24+
Life satisfaction scale	0.15	0.17	0.12	−0.03	0.05
Mean score in growth change	0.16	0.23+	0.23+	0.24+	0.28*

*** p < 0.001, ** p < 0.01, * p < 0.05, + p < 0.10; A correlation with the retrospective measure of growth accompanied by † differs by 0.05 with the corresponding correlation with prospective measure of growth

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