The aim of this research is to reveal predictive relationships between posttraumatic growth, values, and perceived social support levels of Syrian refugees who have had a war experience. The sample of the research consists of the Syrians who migrated from Syria to Turkey due to the war and who have witnessed the war. According to the results of the research, in the model based on the variables of posttraumatic growth, perceived social support, and owned values, related paths of all the models have been found in good levels of concordance. According to the findings obtained from the analysis of the results, the values that the refugees who had a war experience have and the level of perceived social support directly predicted posttraumatic growth and also the values directly predicted the level of perceived social support.
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