摘要：AbstractPosttraumatic growth was believed to be related with gender. Females tend to report greater levels of posttraumatic growth following the experience of traumatic event than males. Little study is known about associations between gender and posttraumatic growth. This research examined a relationship between gender and posttraumatic growth mediated by coping behaviour in disaster survivors. The samples consists of 100 survivors of affectedness natural disaster earthquake in Bantul district and volcano eruption in Cangkringan Sleman district in Yogyakarta Province Indonesia. Data were collected several years after disasters in 2013. The measurement instruments used for data collection had subscales on coping and post-traumatic growth level. The result showed that coping was significantly associated with posttraumatic growth. The relation between gender and posttraumatic growth mediated by coping behaviour. This result contributes more in literature to explain the relationship between gender and posttraumatic growth.
