Bereaved Adults' Evaluations of Grief Management Messages: Effects of Message Person Centeredness, Recipient Individual Differences, and Contextual Factors

Autor/inn/en	Rack, Jessica; Burleson, Brant; Bodie, Graham; Holmstrom, Amanda; Servaty-Seib, Heather
Titel	Bereaved Adults' Evaluations of Grief Management Messages: Effects of Message Person Centeredness, Recipient Individual Differences, and Contextual Factors
Quelle	In: Death Studies, 32 (2008) 5, S.399-427 (29 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0748-1187
Schlagwörter	Grief; Young Adults; Individual Differences; Coping; Context Effect; Personality; Correlation; Psychological Patterns; Gender Differences + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Trauer; Young adult; Junger Erwachsener; Individueller Unterschied; Bewältigung; Personalität; Korrelation; Geschlechterkonflikt
Abstract	This study identifies grief management strategies that bereaved adults evaluate as more and less helpful, assesses whether the person centeredness of these strategies explains their helpfulness, and determines whether strategy helpfulness varies as a function of demographic, personality, and situational factors. Participants (105 bereaved young adults) assessed the helpfulness of 16 grief management strategies; these strategies were coded for their degree of person centeredness. Strategy person centeredness was strongly correlated with helpfulness. Strategy helpfulness varied as a function of participant gender and the disruptiveness of the decedent's death, but not as a function of need for cognition or decedent closeness. (Contains 3 tables and 1 figure.) (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10