Mediating processes in bereavement: The role of rumination, threatening grief interpretations, and deliberate grief avoidance

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 71, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1669-1676

  van der Houwen, Karolijne ^a   Stroebe, Margaret ^b   Schut, Henk ^b   Stroebe, Wolfgang ^b   Bout, Jan van den ^b  

^a STATISTICS NETHERLANDS   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Avoidance; Bereavement; Cognitive appraisal; Grief; Internet; Mediation; Rumination

Indexed keywords

AVOIDANCE REACTION; COGNITION; INTERNET; QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY; RISK FACTOR; VULNERABILITY;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BEREAVEMENT; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; EMOTIONAL ATTACHMENT; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; GRIEF; HUMAN; LONELINESS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOOD; NEUROSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RUMINATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; BEREAVEMENT; FEMALE; GRIEF; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 77957693259     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2010.06.047     Document Type: Article

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