Psychosocial Care Needs, Personality Styles, and Coping Strategies of Mourners in a Rural Municipality in Spain: An Observational Study
Grieving is a natural, self-limiting process of adaptation to a new reality following a significant loss, either real or perceived, with a wide range of manifestations that have an impact on the health of the grieving individual. This study aims to analyse the relationships between interpersonal sty...
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| author | Pedro-Ruymán Brito-Brito Irayma Galdona-Luis Martín Rodríguez-Álvaro Alfonso-Miguel García-Hernández |
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| description | Grieving is a natural, self-limiting process of adaptation to a new reality following a significant loss, either real or perceived, with a wide range of manifestations that have an impact on the health of the grieving individual. This study aims to analyse the relationships between interpersonal styles, coping strategies, and psychosocial care needs in a sample of mourners in a rural municipality. Initial hypothesis: there are associations between types of grief and psychosocial needs, as well as between types of grief and interpersonal styles or coping strategies. An observational, descriptive, analytical, cross-sectional study was carried out with a sample of 123 people. Female participants represented 64.2% of all participants. The mean age was 42.7 (±13.2) years, and 86.2% of participants reported continuing to suffer from the loss, with a 10.5% prevalence of <i>maladaptive grieving</i>. Regarding the associations identified between coping strategies and the interpersonal characteristics of the mourners, we found that those with the best coping scores described themselves as self-confident, boastful, jovial, forceful, gentle-hearted, self-assured, outgoing, and/or neighbourly. By contrast, mourners who obtained poorer coping scores self-identified as shy, unsparkling, timid, unsociable, unbold, and/or bashful. This provides a clinical profile linked to <i>maladaptive grieving</i> in which emotional, self-perception, and social problems are prevalent. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-1ab6825d8190415bbe8fe90cd68998c72023-11-17T22:57:19ZengMDPI AGHealthcare2227-90322023-04-01119124410.3390/healthcare11091244Psychosocial Care Needs, Personality Styles, and Coping Strategies of Mourners in a Rural Municipality in Spain: An Observational StudyPedro-Ruymán Brito-Brito0Irayma Galdona-Luis1Martín Rodríguez-Álvaro2Alfonso-Miguel García-Hernández3Training and Research in Care, Primary Care Management Board of Tenerife, The Canary Islands Health Service, 38004 Santa Cruz de Tenerife, SpainElectronic Health Record Training, Primary Care Management Board of Tenerife, The Canary Islands Health Service, 38004 Santa Cruz de Tenerife, SpainDepartment of Nursing, Faculty of Healthcare Sciences, University of La Laguna, 38200 Santa Cruz de Tenerife, SpainDepartment of Nursing, Faculty of Healthcare Sciences, University of La Laguna, 38200 Santa Cruz de Tenerife, SpainGrieving is a natural, self-limiting process of adaptation to a new reality following a significant loss, either real or perceived, with a wide range of manifestations that have an impact on the health of the grieving individual. This study aims to analyse the relationships between interpersonal styles, coping strategies, and psychosocial care needs in a sample of mourners in a rural municipality. Initial hypothesis: there are associations between types of grief and psychosocial needs, as well as between types of grief and interpersonal styles or coping strategies. An observational, descriptive, analytical, cross-sectional study was carried out with a sample of 123 people. Female participants represented 64.2% of all participants. The mean age was 42.7 (±13.2) years, and 86.2% of participants reported continuing to suffer from the loss, with a 10.5% prevalence of <i>maladaptive grieving</i>. Regarding the associations identified between coping strategies and the interpersonal characteristics of the mourners, we found that those with the best coping scores described themselves as self-confident, boastful, jovial, forceful, gentle-hearted, self-assured, outgoing, and/or neighbourly. By contrast, mourners who obtained poorer coping scores self-identified as shy, unsparkling, timid, unsociable, unbold, and/or bashful. This provides a clinical profile linked to <i>maladaptive grieving</i> in which emotional, self-perception, and social problems are prevalent.https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9032/11/9/1244needs assessmentnursing diagnosisgriefadaptationpsychologicalpersonality |
| spellingShingle | Pedro-Ruymán Brito-Brito Irayma Galdona-Luis Martín Rodríguez-Álvaro Alfonso-Miguel García-Hernández Psychosocial Care Needs, Personality Styles, and Coping Strategies of Mourners in a Rural Municipality in Spain: An Observational Study Healthcare needs assessment nursing diagnosis grief adaptation psychological personality |
| title | Psychosocial Care Needs, Personality Styles, and Coping Strategies of Mourners in a Rural Municipality in Spain: An Observational Study |
| title_full | Psychosocial Care Needs, Personality Styles, and Coping Strategies of Mourners in a Rural Municipality in Spain: An Observational Study |
| title_fullStr | Psychosocial Care Needs, Personality Styles, and Coping Strategies of Mourners in a Rural Municipality in Spain: An Observational Study |
| title_full_unstemmed | Psychosocial Care Needs, Personality Styles, and Coping Strategies of Mourners in a Rural Municipality in Spain: An Observational Study |
| title_short | Psychosocial Care Needs, Personality Styles, and Coping Strategies of Mourners in a Rural Municipality in Spain: An Observational Study |
| title_sort | psychosocial care needs personality styles and coping strategies of mourners in a rural municipality in spain an observational study |
| topic | needs assessment nursing diagnosis grief adaptation psychological personality |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9032/11/9/1244 |
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