PREDICTORS AND PARAMETERS OF HUMAN GRIEVING

人类悲伤的预测因素和参数

• 批准号: 6209664
• 负责人: GEORGE A BONANNO
• 金额: $ 9.97万
• 依托单位: COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY TEACHERS COLLEGE
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 1997
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1997-07-20 至 2002-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6209664
• 关键词: behavior prediction; behavior test; behavioral /social science research tag; bereavement; clinical research; coping; death; depression; emotional adjustment; emotions; grief; human subject; interview; longitudinal human study; mental process; personality; psychometrics; questionnaires; sign /symptom; trauma

Recent reviews of the bereavement literature have noted the absence of empirical support for traditional models of coping with loss as well as the need for basic research aimed at establishing the parameters of grief experience, how such experience might relate to other stress and depressive responses, and which basic cognitive, emotional, coping, and personality variables might influence the course of grief. In accord with these needs, the proposed study will utilize a prospective longitudinal design to examine specific questions related to the parameters and predictors of grieving. A battery of interview and questionnaire assessments will be administered between 2 and 4 months into bereavement. The primary dependent measures will be repeated again at 14 and 25 months post- loss. In addition, to distinguish between normative and bereavement-specific processes, a matched sample of married adults will be assessed using similar instruments over approximately the same time course. A first aim will be to empirically establish the parameters of grief-specific symptoms through psychometric analyses of interview data and through analyses of the interview-based grief score's convergent and discriminate validity in relation to questionnaire and interview measures of general distress and depressive and trauma symptoms. A second aim will focus on measuring basic cognitive, emotional, and personality processes during bereavement and establishing their predictive relationship to grief course. These include variables pertaining to the experience and expression of emotion related to the loss, coping behaviors and strategies specific to the loss, personality dimensions related to subjective regulation, e.g., dispositional self-deception, and to general functioning, e.g., the Five-Factor Model, verbal-disclosure about the loss, and the personal meaning of the loss. These five sets of basic dimensions will be then examined as predictors of longitudinal grief and health course. The inter-relationship among, and unique predictive utility of, each set of predictors will be established using hierarchical regression and path analyses. A final aim will be to examine the range of grief symptoms and their relationship to predictor and moderator variables in response to two different types of losses, the loss of a spouse and the loss of a child.

最近对丧亲文献的评论指出了缺席 对损失的传统应对模型的经验支持 以及旨在建立基础研究的需求 悲伤经验的参数，这种经验可能与 其他压力和抑郁反应以及哪些基本认知， 情感，应对和个性变量可能会影响 悲伤的过程。根据这些需求，拟议的研究 将利用前瞻性纵向设计来检查特定 与悲伤的参数和预测因素有关的问题。一个 访谈和问卷调查的电池将是 在丧亲之后2到4个月之间管理。主要 依赖措施将在14和25个月后再次重复 损失。此外，要区分规范和 丧亲的特定过程，已婚成年人的匹配样本 将在大约使用类似工具的情况下评估 同一时间课程。第一个目的是凭经验确定 通过心理测量分析的悲伤特异性症状参数 面试数据以及通过基于面试的悲伤的分析 得分的收敛性和区分有效性相关 问卷和面试的一般困扰和面试措施 抑郁和创伤症状。第二个目标将重点 测量基本的认知，情感和人格过程 在丧亲期间并建立他们的预测关系 到悲伤的过程。这些包括与 与损失有关的情感的经验和表达 行为和损失特有的策略 与主观调节有关的尺寸，例如处置 自我欺骗和一般功能，例如五因素 模型，关于损失的口头披露以及个人意义 损失。那将是这五组基本维度 被研究为纵向悲伤和健康课程的预测指标。这 每个人之间的相互关系和独特的预测效用 将使用层次回归建立一组预测变量 和路径分析。最终目标是检查 悲伤症状及其与预测因子和主持人的关系 变量响应两种不同类型的损失，损失 配偶和失去孩子。