Resilience to Loss in Bereaved Spouses, Bereaved Parents, and Bereaved Gay Men.
- 1 May 2005
- journal article
- Published by American Psychological Association (APA) in Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
- Vol. 88 (5), 827-843
- https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.88.5.827
Abstract
Recent research has indicated that many people faced with highly aversive events suffer only minor, transient disruptions in functioning and retain a capacity for positive affect and experiences. This article reports 2 studies that replicate and extend these findings among bereaved parents, spouses, and caregivers of a chronically ill life partner using a range of self-report and objective measures of adjustment. Resilience was evidenced in half of each bereaved sample when compared with matched, nonbereaved counterparts and 36% of the caregiver sample in a more conservative, repeated-measures ipsative comparison. Resilient individuals were not distinguished by the quality of their relationship with spouse/partner or caregiver burden but were rated more positively and as better adjusted by close friends.This publication has 49 references indexed in Scilit:
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