Development and validation of an instrument for the assessment of dependency among bereaved persons
Development and validation of an instrument for the assessment of dependency among bereaved persons
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DOI：
10.1007/s10862-005-9016-3
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发表时间：
2006-12-01
影响因子：
1.6
通讯作者：
Prigerson, Holly G.
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作者：
Johnson, Jeffrey G.;Vanderwerker, Lauren C.;Prigerson, Holly G.
在失去亲人的个体中，依赖被假设为严重和持久的悲伤反应的重要预测因素。然而，虽然有一些工具，评估人际依赖作为一种人格特质或风格，没有量表可用于评估丧亲相关的依赖。从170个丧偶参与者在社区为基础的纵向调查，谁已经失去了平均10.8个月的数据，被用来调查的丧亲依赖量表（BDS）的信度和效度，这是一个工具，开发来评估依赖死者之间的丧亲之痛的人。结果表明，BDS具有可接受的内部信度和令人满意的收敛效度、区分效度和结构效度。BDS可能是一个临床上有用的预测持久和复杂的悲伤反应，重性抑郁症，自杀最近丧亲的个人。
Dependency among bereaved individuals has been hypothesized to be an important predictor of severe and enduring grief reactions. However, although there are a number of instruments that assess interpersonal dependency as a personality trait or style, no scales are available to assess bereavement-related dependency. Data from 170 widowed participants in a community-based longitudinal investigation, who had been bereaved for an average of 10.8 months, were used to investigate the reliability and validity of the Bereavement Dependency Scale (BDS), an instrument that was developed to assess dependency on the deceased among bereaved persons. Results indicated that the BDS demonstrated acceptable internal reliability and satisfactory convergent, discriminant, and construct validity. The BDS may be a clinically useful predictor of enduring and complicated grief reactions, major depressive disorder, and suicidality among recently bereaved individuals.