Friday 26 June 2015

Coping flexibility, forward focus and trauma focus in older widows and widowers

Bereavement Care, 01 April 2015, vol./is. 34/1(17-23)
Knowles, Lindsey M, O'Connor, Mary-Frances

The primary aim of the present study was to assess whether trauma focus and forward focus coping strategies, and using strategies from both flexibly, would predict grief severity. Results showed that greater forward focus and coping flexibility predicted lower grief severity, and also predicted lower yearning, loneliness, and perceived stress. 

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