The Relationship between Coping Patterns and Mental Health after Spousal Loss

• Sakaguchi Yukihiro

  Graduate Scool of Human Sciences, Osaka University:The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

• Kashiwagi Tetsuo

  Graduate School of Human Sciences, Osaka University

• Tsuneto Satoru

  Hospice at Yodogawa Christian Hospital

Bibliographic Information

Other Title

• 配偶者喪失後の対処パターンと精神健康との関連
• ハイグウシャ ソウシツ ゴ ノ タイショ パターン ト セイシン ケンコウ ト ノ カンレン

Abstract

The aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between the coping pattern and mental health after bereavement and to consider maladaptive coping. 123 widow(er)s answered a questionnaire concerning coping with bereavement (Coping with Bereavement Scale) and mental health (General Health Questionnaire Japanese version, 28 items version). As a result of factor analysis with promax rotation, it was revealed that Coping with Bereavement Scale had three main factors : "Life Orientation" (e. g., I thought about my own life from now on), "Avoidance" (e. g., I tried to forget the deceased), and "Retaining Ties (e. g., I talked with the deceased in my heart)". As a result of partial correlation analysis, it was shown that "Avoidance" and "Retaining Ties" had little relationship with mental health. As a result of cluster analysis, the following three patterns of coping with bereavement were emerged : Cluster 1 (low-life-orientation and high-retaining-ties), Cluster 2 (high-life-orientation and high-retaining-times), and Cluster 3 (middle-life-orientation and high-avoidance). These coping patterns were unrelated with age, sex, family structure, and passage of time from loss. Three coping patterns were compared by using one-way analysis of the variance (ANOVA) on mental health, and further post hoc comparisons of significant results were undertaken. The scores of GHQ-28 total and four subscales of Cluster 1 were significantly higher than that both of Cluster 2 and Cluster 3. According to GHQ-28, 93.8% widow(er)s in Cluster 1 was screened as neuroticism. Thus low-life-orientation and high-retaining-ties was considered as maladaptive coping pattern after bereavement. And the implications of these findings for bereavement care were discussed.

Journal

• Japanese Journal of Psychosomatic Medicine

  Japanese Journal of Psychosomatic Medicine 41 (6), 439-446, 2001

  Japanese Society of Psychosomatic Medicine

Keywords

• spousal loss
• coping pattern
• mental health
• maladaptive coping
• bereavement care

Details

• CRID: 1390001204888762496
• NII Article ID: 110001123106
• NII Book ID: AN00121636
• DOI: 10.15064/jjpm.41.6_439
• ISSN: 21895996
• ISSN: 03850307
• NDL BIB ID: 5886878
• Web Site: https://ndlsearch.ndl.go.jp/books/R000000004-I5886878
• Web Site: https://search.jamas.or.jp/link/ui/2002022085
• Text Lang: ja
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