Family Coping With Covid-19
Unexpected Parental Loss and Surviving Parent Coping, Grief and Posttraumatic Growth Outcomes Based on Child Age
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13629470 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Erin Donohue (0000-0001-5458-4679, College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Pages | 302228241272566-302228241272566 |
| Publication date | 2024-08-17 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0030-2228 • E-ISSN: 1541-3764 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/00302228241272566 |
| PMID | 39153093 |
| OpenAlex | W4401659248 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 44 |
Guided by the conceptual framework of widowed parenting, the current study takes a relational approach to understand more about how the characteristics of parents of young and adult children relate to coping following the unexpected death of a partner due to COVID-19, and how these variables predict complicated grief and posttraumatic growth. A sample of 81 widowed parents completed self-report measures examining parenting self-efficacy, relationship uncertainty, coping, complicated grief, and posttraumatic growth. Results of hierarchical regression analyses suggest that, when controlling for time since death (1) relationship uncertainty and avoidant coping significantly predict complicated grief for parents in the sample with adult children, and (2) widowed parenting self-efficacy and both problem-focused and emotion-focused coping significantly predict posttraumatic growth for parents in the sample with young children. Results of the current study may inform future practices (e.g., use of Emotionally Focused Family Therapy) to aid families grieving an unexpected loss
Coping (psychology · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19 · Developmental psychology · Disease · Grief · Multilevel model · Posttraumatic growth · Psychotherapist · Clinical Psychology · Family Support in Illness · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health · Medicine · Migration, Health and Trauma · Psychology
Posttraumatic Growth
Coping style use predicts posttraumatic stress and complicated grief symptom severity among college students reporting a traumatic loss.
Grief and mourning gone awry
The Burden of Loss
Acute grief after deaths due to Covid-19, natural causes and unnatural causes
Inventory of complicated grief
You want to measure coping but your protocol’ too long
The posttraumatic growth inventory
Parental and Other Caregiver Loss Due to Covid-19 in the United States
Dyadic Relationships between a Surviving Parent and Children in Widowed Families
The Determinants of Parenting
The roles of needs satisfaction, cognitive appraisals, and coping strategies in promoting posttraumatic growth
Using self-compassion to grow in the face of trauma
Coping Strategies and Considering the Possibility of Death in Those Bereaved by Sudden and Violent Deaths
Different Trajectories of Prolonged Grief in Bereaved Family Members After Terror
Fathers Raising Motherless Children
Beyond Grief and Survival
The Dual Process Model of Coping with Bereavement
Family Communication and Psychological Health in Children and Adolescents Following a Parent’s Death From Cancer
Bereaved College Students
Life Came to a Full Stop
The Relationship Between Perceived Parental Competence and Bereavement Outcomes in Widows With Young Children
Grief intensity, coping and psychological health among family members and friends following a terrorist attack
Daily life stressors and coping strategies during widowhood
Partner bereavement when parenting dependent children
Widowed parenting self-efficacy scale
Ethnic group and social support contribution to posttraumatic growth after sudden spousal loss among Jewish, Muslim, and Druze widows in Israel
Parent-child relationships following spousal/parental death
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |