Sense-making, grief, and the experience of violent loss: Toward a mediational model
Sense-making, grief, and the experience of violent loss: Toward a mediational model
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10.1080/07481180600614351
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2006-06-01
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3.8
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Neimeyer, RA
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作者：
Currier, JM;Holland, JM;Neimeyer, RA
因意外、被杀或自杀而丧失亲人会增加悲痛并发症的风险。这是第一次对悲痛的建构主义模型进行检验的研究，该模型提出，理智的产生，或构建对丧失经历的理解的能力，在暴力死亡和复杂的悲痛症状之间起到了中介作用。对1056名最近失去亲人的大学生进行了不同种族的抽样调查，完成了复杂悲痛问卷(ICG)和问题，这些问题评估了理解能力的程度以及围绕他们失去亲人的情况。与这项研究的主要假设一致的是，理智产生作为一种解释机制，解释了暴力丧失和悲伤并发症之间的联系。具体地说，结果显示，即使突然失去亲人的因素被所有参与者分享，理智的创造也解释了这种关系。总体而言，这项研究为悲伤模型提供了初步支持，在该模型中，未能在损失中找到意义被概念化为通往复杂悲伤症状的关键途径。
Bereavement following violent loss by accident, homicide or suicide increases the risk for complications in grieving. This is the first study to examine a constructivist model of grief that proposes that sense-making, or the capacity to construct an understanding of the loss experience, mediates the association between violent death and complicated grief symptomatology. An ethnically diverse sample of 1,056 recently bereaved college students completed the Inventory of Complicated Grief (ICG) and questions assessing the degree of sense-making and the circumstances surrounding their losses. Consistent with this study's primary hypothesis, sense-making emerged as an explanatory mechanism for the association between violent loss and complications in grieving. Specifically, the results revealed that sense-making explained this relation, even when the element of sudden bereavement was shared by all of the participants. Overall, this study provides initial support for a model of grief in which failure to find meaning in a loss is conceptualized as a crucial pathway to complicated grief symptomatology.