The Role of Extraversion Personality on Posttraumatic Growth in Victims With Disabilities Due to Earthquakes
Abstract
The Yogyakarta earthquake in 2006 left many problems, especially for those with disabilities the aftermath earthquake. Posttraumatic growth is an individual’s positive interpretation of negative experiences or feelings. The personality type that is often associated with stress, trauma, and growth events is the extraversion type. The extraversion personality dominates in dealing with traumatic events. This research aimed to find out the roles of extraversion in the posttraumatic growth of survivors with disabilities aftermath earthquake. The subjects were survivors of the Yogyakarta earthquake 2006 (N=51) that suffered upper and lower limbs disability in arms and feet and spinal cord disability. Data were collected using the posttraumatic growth scale and extraversion scale. This study’s data analysis method was simple regression. The results show that extraversion contributes to posttraumatic growth with disabilities aftermath earthquake.
Keywords: Extraversion, Posttraumatic growth, Earthquakes
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