Posttraumatic growth, purpose, and trauma in university survivors of sexual assault.

This study focused on purpose as a key mechanism of posttraumatic growth for university student survivors of sexual assault. An online survey was completed by 278 participants of various ethnic, racial and gender backgrounds, recruited through email, social media, department subject pools, and Amazon Mechanical Turk. Researchers used mixed methods, concurrent triangulation approach in which quantitative and qualitative data were collected simultaneously with closed and open-ended questions.