Coping and resilience strategies as mediating factors of complicated grief
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https://doi.org/10.33898/rdp.v22i88.636Keywords:
Complicated Grief, Grief, Bereaved, Coping, Coping Strategies, ResiliencyAbstract
Objective: to describe the type of coping which develops (focused on emotions, focused on the problem and search for transcendence) a sample of people in complicated grief (CG), its level of resiliency and to study the possible correlation between coping and resiliency. Method: Descriptive correlational study on a sample of 130 people in situation of complicated mourning with data collected through self-report in a mourning listening or accompaniment center. Results: average age 56 years, 76% women, 24 % men. Average of complicated mourning 41.28 on 76. Medium all about 4 total coping 2.66 (coping focused in problems 2.56; emotions 2.22 and search for transcendence 3.21). Resiliency average 4.49 of 7. Significant correlations (alpha=0.01) were found: the three factors of the scale with the coping total score: with coping focused on emotions Pearson: 0.591; problems Pearson: 0.703 and search of trascendence Pearson: 0.711. Among factors coping focused on problems and search for transcendence Pearson: 0.287. Conclusion: Resilience appears to be natural and common to the CG. It is associated with focused on problems coping and search for transcendence, while the CG is associated with emotion-based coping.
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