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Attachment and severity of grief: The mediating role of negative appraisal and inflexible coping

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Delespaux, Emily [UCL] Ryckebosch-Dayez, Anne-Sophie [UCL] Heeren, Alexandre [UCL] Zech, Emmanuelle [UCL]

According to the Dual Process Model of coping with bereavement (DPM; Stroebe & Schut, 1999), adjustment to bereavement involves a flexible oscillation between two types of coping strategies: loss-oriented (LO) and restoration-oriented (RO). This model postulates that extremely anxious or avoidant attachment disturbs the oscillation process by focusing more on one type of strategy, either LO or RO. The present study examined this assumption. We recruited 321 bereaved individuals who had lost a romantic partner. Our results showed that less negative appraisal of bereavement-related stressors, as well as higher use of RO strategies, mediated the link between attachment avoidance and low severity of grief reactions. However, the DPM variables were not found to mediate the link between attachment anxiety and elevated grief reactions. We discuss how these results provide an empirical basis of the DPM

Document type Article de périodique (Journal article) – Article de recherche
Access type Accès mixte
Publication date 2013
Language Anglais
Journal information "Omega: Journal of Death and Dying : an international journal for the study of dying, death, bereavement, suicide, and other lethal behaviors" - Vol. 67, no.6, p. 269-289 (2013)
Peer reviewed yes
Publisher Baywood Publishing Co., Inc. ((United States) Amityville)
issn 0030-2228
e-issn 1541-3764
Publication status Publié
Affiliations UCL - SSH/IPSY - Psychological Sciences Research Institute
UCL - SSS/IONS - Institute of NeuroScience
UCL - SSS/IONS/NEUR - Clinical Neuroscience
Keywords coping ; flexibility ; grief ; bereavement ; attachment ; appraisal
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Bibliographic reference Delespaux, Emily ; Ryckebosch-Dayez, Anne-Sophie ; Heeren, Alexandre ; Zech, Emmanuelle. Attachment and severity of grief: The mediating role of negative appraisal and inflexible coping. In: Omega: Journal of Death and Dying : an international journal for the study of dying, death, bereavement, suicide, and other lethal behaviors, Vol. 67, no.6, p. 269-289 (2013)
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