Measuring the Coping Efforts of Grieving Undergraduate Students: Developing the GCOPE Through a Mixed-Method Design

摘要: MEASURING THE COPING EFFORTS OF GRIEVING UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS: DEVELOPING GCOPE THROUGH A MIXED-METHOD DESIGN By Benjamin Dyson Lord, Ph.D. dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for degree Doctor Philosophy at Virginia Commonwealth University. University, 2015 Major Director: Sandra E. Gramling, Ph.D., Associate Professor Psychology Department The current study used a three-phase mixed-methods design to produce new selfreport measure strategies that college students use cope with death lovedone. To date, no other coping inventories exist which have been developed specifically are relevant this population. This is particularly problematic, as undergraduate commonly experience bereavement and may be unique risk poor outcomes. College often estranged from their primary support networks also process undergoing important developmental tasks related emerging adulthood. Stress models allow idiosyncratic nature grieving process. However, application grief-specific stress-and-coping theories, such Dual Process Model Coping Bereavement (DPM), hampered by