Circumstances of Death and Complicated Grief: Indirect Associations Through Meaning Made of Loss

摘要: ABSTRACTLosses by violent means and the loss of primary attachment figures may increase likelihood developing a chronic severe grief response (referred to as complicated grief, or CG). Path analysis was used examine relationships between these risk factors CG symptoms. College student participants filled out online questionnaires relating their bereavement. Analyses provided support for statistical models whereby meaning made fully mediated association cause death symptoms partially relationship deceased Although based on cross-sectional data, findings provide additional meaning-oriented understandings adaptation loss.