Major Depression Associated With Widowhood

Zisook, Sidney; Shuchter, Stephen R.

doi:10.1097/00019442-199300140-00006

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“…Widowed individuals with a large number of physical disorders or disabilities experienced more psychological distress, which is consistent with several studies (Feinson, 1982;Voyer and Vézina, 1995;Zisook and Shuchter, 1993). Perceived nonsupportiveness was related to more distress.…”

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Predictors of psychological adjustment after bereavement

Onrust

Cuijpers

Smit

et al. 2006

Int. Psychogeriatr.

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Predictors of psychological adjustment after bereavement

Onrust

Cuijpers

Smit

et al. 2006

Int. Psychogeriatr.

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“…The robust literatures on memory and attentional biases associated with symptomatology offer one potential explanation. Early grief responses are typically characterized by at least some depression, grief, and PTSD symptoms (Zisook et al, 1998;Zisook & Shuchter, 1993); the more severe the grief reaction, the more likely those symptoms will be elevated and will persist. When one considers that depressive and grief states have been widely shown to be associated with memory biases for disorder-related material (e.g., Blaney, 1986;Bower, 1981;Rinck & Becker, 2005;Safer, Bonanno, & Field, 2001) and PTSD symptoms are associated with attentional biases for threatening stimuli (Buckley, Blanchard, & Neill, 2000;Constans, Vasterling, & Brewin, 2005), it would seem likely that these biases could influence more severely grieved persons' views of the world.…”

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Do Shattered Worldviews Lead to Complicated Grief? Prospective and Longitudinal Analyses

Mancini¹,

Prati²,

Bonanno³

2011

Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology

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Theories of complicated grief (CG) and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) posit a central etiological and maintaining role for global beliefs about the world (Janoff-Bulman, 1992). in two studies using separate bereaved samples, we examined these theoretical postulates. Study 1 included prospective data on bereaved spouses and nonbereaved controls at baseline and 6-months post-loss. high pre-loss justice beliefs and acceptance of death prospectively predicted lower depression in bereaved but not control participants, providing evidence for buffering effects. Study 2 used longitudinal data on bereaved spouses and parents (4-and 18-months post-loss), and matched nonbereaved controls. in comparisons to matched controls, bereaved persons showed more benevolent but less meaningful worldviews, and violent or sudden loss was not associated with negative worldviews. in contrast to theoretical proposals, early benevolence, and meaningfulness beliefs showed no longitudinal relation to later PTSD, grief, and depression symptoms. By contrast, early PTSD, grief, and depression predicted later levels of benevolence. findings support that pre-loss worldviews can buffer

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“…While sadness may be linked to appraisals of permanent loss, grief encompasses a magnitude which is "far more profound and all-encompassing" (Bonanno et al, 2008, p. 798). From a psychological standpoint, this loss can cause severe disorders such as major depressive symptoms (Zisook & Shuchter, 1993).…”

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Emotion regulation in bereavement: searching for and finding emotional support in social network sites

Döveling

2014

New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia

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In an age of rising impact of online communication in social network sites (SNS), emotional interaction is neither limited nor restricted by time or space. Bereavement extends to the anonymity of cyberspace. What role does virtual interaction play in SNS in dealing with the basic human emotion of grief caused by the loss of a beloved person? The analysis laid out in this article provides answers in light of an interdisciplinary perspective on online bereavement. Relevant lines of research are scrutinized. After laying out the theoretical spectrum for the study, hypotheses based on a prior in-depth qualitative content analysis of 179 postings in three different German online bereavement platforms are proposed and scrutinized in a quantitative content analysis (2127 postings from 318 users). Emotion regulation patterns in SNS and similarities as well as differences in online bereavement of children, adolescents and adults are revealed. Large-scale quantitative findings into central motives, patterns, and restorative effects of online shared bereavement in regulating distress, fostering personal empowerment, and engendering meaning are presented. The article closes with implications for further analysis in memorialization practices.

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Major Depression Associated With Widowhood

Cited by 83 publications

References 31 publications

Predictors of psychological adjustment after bereavement

Predictors of psychological adjustment after bereavement

Do Shattered Worldviews Lead to Complicated Grief? Prospective and Longitudinal Analyses

Emotion regulation in bereavement: searching for and finding emotional support in social network sites

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