SOCIAL SUPPORT FOR THE BEREAVED - RECIPIENTS AND PROVIDERS PERSPECTIVES ON WHAT IS HELPFUL
SOCIAL SUPPORT FOR THE BEREAVED - RECIPIENTS AND PROVIDERS PERSPECTIVES ON WHAT IS HELPFUL
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DOI：
10.1037/0022-006x.54.4.438
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发表时间：
1986-08-01
影响因子：
5.9
通讯作者：
WORTMAN, CB
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作者：
LEHMAN, DR;ELLARD, JH;WORTMAN, CB
作为丧亲之痛长期影响研究的一部分，94名在4-7年前的一次机动车事故中失去配偶（N= 40）或孩子（N= 54）的人被要求描述他人的支持尝试有帮助和没有帮助。最常提到的有帮助的支持尝试是与类似的其他人接触和表达感情的机会;最常提到的没有帮助的是提供建议和鼓励恢复。为了更好地理解这些无用的支持尝试，研究人员与100名对照组受访者的报告进行了比较，这些报告是关于他们会做些什么或说些什么来帮助一个失去亲人的人。由于人们不知道该对失去亲人的人说些什么，因此可能会出现无益的支持尝试，鉴于控制机构给予的开明反应，这种可能性似乎是不可信的。此外，丧失亲人的受访者的报告，他们觉得如何恢复和控制受访者的估计如何恢复丧失亲人的将是密切的对应关系表明，无益的支持尝试是不是基于对恢复的误解。这些研究结果表明，在未来的研究中，应该解决丧亲之痛和潜在的支持者之间的交易中固有的因素与理解支持尝试失败。
As part of a study of the long-term effects of bereavement, 94 people who had lost either a spouse (N= 40) or a child (N= 54) in a motor vehicle accident 4–7 years earlier were asked to describe support attempts from others that were helpful and unhelpful. Support attempts most frequently mentioned as helpful were contact with a similar other and opportunity to express feelings; those most frequently mentioned as unhelpful were giving advice and encouraging recovery. To understand better the unhelpful support attempts, comparisons were made with 100 control respondents’ reports of what they would do or say to help a bereaved person. The possibility that unhelpful support attempts occur because people do not know what to say to bereaved persons seems implausible in view of the enlightened responses given by controls. Furthermore, the close correspondence between bereaved respondents’ reports of how recovered they felt and control respondents’ estimates of how recovered the bereaved would be suggests that unhelpful support attempts are not based on misconceptions about recovery. These findings indicate that factors inherent in the transaction between the bereaved and potential supporters should be addressed in future research concerned with understanding support attempts that fail.