Meaning and coping orientation of bereaved parents: Individual and dyadic processes.
The present study aimed to examine whether bereaved parents "meaning-made"-defined as results of attempts to reduce discrepancies between the meaning assigned to the death of the child and self and world-views-was influenced by their own and their partner's coping orientations. Coping...
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| author | Sara Albuquerque Asuman Buyukcan-Tetik Margaret S Stroebe Henk A W Schut Isabel Narciso Marco Pereira Catrin Finkenauer |
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| description | The present study aimed to examine whether bereaved parents "meaning-made"-defined as results of attempts to reduce discrepancies between the meaning assigned to the death of the child and self and world-views-was influenced by their own and their partner's coping orientations. Coping orientations were conceptualized within the Dual Process Model, which entails loss coping orientation (LO; focus on the loss itself), restoration coping orientations (RO; focus on stressors that come about as an indirect consequence of the bereavement), and a flexible oscillation between both coping orientations. The sample consisted of 227 couples identified through obituary notices in local and national newspapers, who provided data at 6, 13, and 20 months after the death of their child. At all three points of measurement, both partners independently completed the Dual Coping Inventory (DCI) and a scale developed by the authors about meaning-made from the loss. Data were analyzed using a multi-level Actor-Partner Interdependence Model. Results show that the combination of parents' own LO and RO (operationalized through the interaction effect between LO and RO) have a positive effect in parents' meaning-made. Partners' LO have a negative effect in parents' meaning-made. These results highlight the importance of, in the context of parental bereavement, being flexible by using both coping orientations, and of acknowledging the interdependence between partners, namely, the interpersonal process by which partner's coping affect one's meaning-made. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-888cd08758f5456e83f454fb59a7f26d2022-12-21T17:51:09ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS ONE1932-62032017-01-01126e017886110.1371/journal.pone.0178861Meaning and coping orientation of bereaved parents: Individual and dyadic processes.Sara AlbuquerqueAsuman Buyukcan-TetikMargaret S StroebeHenk A W SchutIsabel NarcisoMarco PereiraCatrin FinkenauerThe present study aimed to examine whether bereaved parents "meaning-made"-defined as results of attempts to reduce discrepancies between the meaning assigned to the death of the child and self and world-views-was influenced by their own and their partner's coping orientations. Coping orientations were conceptualized within the Dual Process Model, which entails loss coping orientation (LO; focus on the loss itself), restoration coping orientations (RO; focus on stressors that come about as an indirect consequence of the bereavement), and a flexible oscillation between both coping orientations. The sample consisted of 227 couples identified through obituary notices in local and national newspapers, who provided data at 6, 13, and 20 months after the death of their child. At all three points of measurement, both partners independently completed the Dual Coping Inventory (DCI) and a scale developed by the authors about meaning-made from the loss. Data were analyzed using a multi-level Actor-Partner Interdependence Model. Results show that the combination of parents' own LO and RO (operationalized through the interaction effect between LO and RO) have a positive effect in parents' meaning-made. Partners' LO have a negative effect in parents' meaning-made. These results highlight the importance of, in the context of parental bereavement, being flexible by using both coping orientations, and of acknowledging the interdependence between partners, namely, the interpersonal process by which partner's coping affect one's meaning-made.http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5453584?pdf=render |
| spellingShingle | Sara Albuquerque Asuman Buyukcan-Tetik Margaret S Stroebe Henk A W Schut Isabel Narciso Marco Pereira Catrin Finkenauer Meaning and coping orientation of bereaved parents: Individual and dyadic processes. PLoS ONE |
| title | Meaning and coping orientation of bereaved parents: Individual and dyadic processes. |
| title_full | Meaning and coping orientation of bereaved parents: Individual and dyadic processes. |
| title_fullStr | Meaning and coping orientation of bereaved parents: Individual and dyadic processes. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Meaning and coping orientation of bereaved parents: Individual and dyadic processes. |
| title_short | Meaning and coping orientation of bereaved parents: Individual and dyadic processes. |
| title_sort | meaning and coping orientation of bereaved parents individual and dyadic processes |
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