TABLE 1.

Characteristics of the 17 studies included in the meta‐analysis

Study author (year)	Region	Publication type	Mean age	r	N	Resilience measurement	PTG measurement	JBI score
Lu, 2014	Northeastern	Dissertation	50.47	0.249	159	CD‐RISC	PTGI‐19	8
Cai & Shi, 2015	Northeastern	Journal	50.75	0.383	101	CD‐RISC	PTGI‐20	7
Jia et al., 2016	Eastern	Journal	46.78	0.572	303	CD‐RISC	PTGI‐20	9
Lei et al., 2017	Eastern	Journal	46.78	0.434	350	CD‐RISC	PTGI‐20	8
Wang et al., 2017	Eastern	Journal	43.2	0.381	120	CD‐RISC	PTGI‐21	7
Liu et al., 2018	N/A	Journal	49	0.350	108	FRAS‐C	PTGI‐SF	7
Yu et al., 2018	Eastern	Journal	N/A	0.491	302	CD‐RISC‐10	PTGI‐20	8
Li, 2019	Central	Dissertation	N/A	0.379	244	CD‐RISC	PTGI‐21	8
Li et al., 2019	Central	Journal	N/A	0.386	224	CD‐RISC	PTGI‐21	9
Shi et al., 2019	Eastern	Journal	N/A	0.748	160	RS‐14	PTGI‐21	6
Yan et al., 2019	Eastern	Journal	49.91	0.650	180	CD‐RISC	PTGI‐21	8
Ding, 2020	Eastern	Journal	N/A	0.301	299	CD‐RISC‐10	PTGI‐20	7
Geng et al., 2020	Eastern	Journal	49.16	0.491	302	CD‐RISC‐10	PTGI‐20	8
Zhu & Liu, 2020	Central	Journal	41.28	0.502	78	RS‐14	PTGI‐21	8
Tu et al., 2020	Eastern	Journal	51.54	0.610	201	CD‐RISC	PTGI‐21	7
Zhang, 2021	Central	Dissertation	47	0.157	236	CD‐RISC	PTGI‐20	8
Shi et al., 2022	Northeastern	Journal	53.28	0.307	789	RS‐14	PTGI‐21	8

Note: N/A=Not reported.

Abbreviations: CD‐RISC, Connor‐Davidson Resilience Scale; FRAS‐C, Shortened Chinese Version of the Family Resilience Assessment Scale; CD‐RISC‐10, Simplified CD‐RISC was compiled by Campbell‐Sills; RS‐14, 14‐item Resilience Scale; PTGI‐21, Posttraumatic Growth Inventory. PTGI‐19, 19‐items PTGI; PTGI‐20, 20‐items PTGI; PTGI‐SF, Short Form of the Posttraumatic Growth Inventory.