Continuing Bonds, Attachment Style, and Adjustment in the Conjugal Bereavement among Hong Kong Chinese
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| Title: | Continuing Bonds, Attachment Style, and Adjustment in the Conjugal Bereavement among Hong Kong Chinese |
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| Language: | English |
| Authors: | Ho, Samuel M. Y., Chan, Ide S. F., Ma, Ernie P. W., Field, Nigel P. |
| Source: | Death Studies. 2013 37(3):248-268. |
| Availability: | Routledge. Available from: Taylor & Francis, Ltd. 325 Chestnut Street Suite 800, Philadelphia, PA 19106. Tel: 800-354-1420; Fax: 215-625-2940; Web site: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals |
| Peer Reviewed: | Y |
| Page Count: | 21 |
| Publication Date: | 2013 |
| Document Type: | Journal Articles Reports - Research |
| Descriptors: | Attachment Behavior, Grief, Death, Foreign Countries, Measures (Individuals), Statistical Data, Correlation, Regression (Statistics), Questionnaires, Factor Analysis, Adults |
| Geographic Terms: | Hong Kong |
| DOI: | 10.1080/07481187.2011.634086 |
| ISSN: | 0748-1187 |
| Abstract: | The present study examined the effects of attachment style and continuing bonds, defined as the extent to which a bereaved individual feels that the deceased remains a part of his/her life, on post bereavement adjustment among 71 conjugally bereaved individuals. It was shown that bereaved individuals with an anxious attachment style tended to show more externalized continuing bonds as well as more grief symptoms. An anxious attachment style played a direct and significant role in post bereavement adjustment over and above the contribution of externalized continuing bonds. Interventions to facilitate restoration tasks and to reduce externalized continuing bonds would be discussed. (Contains 5 tables.) |
| Abstractor: | As Provided |
| Number of References: | 59 |
| Entry Date: | 2014 |
| Accession Number: | EJ1010349 |
| Database: | ERIC |
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| Abstract: | The present study examined the effects of attachment style and continuing bonds, defined as the extent to which a bereaved individual feels that the deceased remains a part of his/her life, on post bereavement adjustment among 71 conjugally bereaved individuals. It was shown that bereaved individuals with an anxious attachment style tended to show more externalized continuing bonds as well as more grief symptoms. An anxious attachment style played a direct and significant role in post bereavement adjustment over and above the contribution of externalized continuing bonds. Interventions to facilitate restoration tasks and to reduce externalized continuing bonds would be discussed. (Contains 5 tables.) |
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| ISSN: | 0748-1187 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/07481187.2011.634086 |
