Importance of Farewell in the Grieving Process
Grief and farewell
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https://doi.org/10.33898/rdp.v33i122.1102Keywords:
mourning, farewell, grief, grieving processAbstract
Objective: to analyze the importance of the perception of farewell and / or the real farewell in a sample of mourners, for the realization of a healthy mourning
Method: 183 attendees that participated in a Grief Workshops at a socio-sanitary center of the Community of Madrid, all with experience of mourning, average of 50 years (SD = 16), 81% (149) women. A questionnaire was given including sociodemographic variables, around the mourning, circumstances of death, perception of farewell and form / s and development of the farewell. A multiple linear regression was performed by backward steps with the effect of farewell as a dependent variable.
Results: the adjusted model allowed a correct estimation of the effect of the farewell of 55% of the cases (corrected R2 =0.548), being the variable with more weight in the prognosis the perception of farewell (Beta=-0.403), followed by the perception of elaboration of the mourning (Beta=0.327), the fact that there has been an explicit farewell and the level of consciousness of death on the part of the deceased (Beta=0.175).
Conclusions: the perception of the realization of a farewell in any of its formats is a variable of great weight for the adequate realization of the grieving process. Although the effect is more positive in explicit, verbalized, pre-death farewells and at the initiative of the mourner, also implicit, non-verbalized farewells, at the initiative of the deceased and / or posthumously have an effect on the evolution of the grieving process.
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