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- Title
Attributions About Bereaved Spouses: Testing the Myths of Coping With Loss.
- Authors
Kahler, Julie; Papa, Anthony; Epstein, Emerson; Levin, Crissa
- Abstract
Social expectations influence how we cope with loss and how people in our social networks respond to us. Wortman and Silver outlined Western cultural assumptions, or myths, about mourning, thought to influence judgments of one's grief response. In particular, the two myths hypothesized to affect social judgments about grievers' adjustment were related to (a) the intensities of the grief response and (b) the duration of the grief response. We assessed if these myths affected the attributions of potential support providers in a convenience sample of 510 Amazon Mechanical Turk community participants. The results indicated preheld expectancies that expressing and processing loss is important to recover from grief was related to attributions about the adjustment of spousally bereaved grievers in vignettes. However, any level of grief symptoms displayed in vignettes was associated with participants, indicating they would discourage expression of grief and distance themselves from the person grieving.
- Subjects
GRIEF; ADAPTABILITY (Personality); SOCIAL support; COMPLICATED grief; CONFIDENCE intervals; HUMAN comfort; SPOUSES; CASE studies; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; STATISTICAL sampling; SOCIAL skills; PSYCHOLOGICAL adaptation; ODDS ratio; BEREAVEMENT
- Publication
Omega: Journal of Death & Dying, 2021, Vol 84, Issue 1, p307
- ISSN
0030-2228
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/0030222819890974