Schut Henk A W, Stroebe Margaret S, Boelen Paul A, Zijerveld Annemieke M
Utrecht University, Department of Clinical Psychology, P.O. Box 80140, 3508 TC, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Death Stud. 2006 Oct;30(8):757-66. doi: 10.1080/07481180600850666.
Some studies of the relationship between continuing bonds and grief intensity have claimed that continuing bonds lead to poor adaptation to bereavement. However, operationalizations of continuing bonds and grief intensity appear to overlap conceptually. Thus, it is still unclear what character the connection between continuing bonds and grief bears and how strong the relationship is. Three studies are reported, 2 of which examine the perception of conceptual overlap between continuing bonds and grief intensity, and 1 that examines whether reducing this perceived conceptual overlap affects the association between continuing bonds and grief intensity. In the first 2 studies, extent of perception of conceptual overlap was established, and subscales for the bonds and grief measures were derived that could be considered less overlapping. In the third study, relationships between bonds, grief, and well-being were calculated for the original scales and those reduced on the basis of deleted perceived overlap. When conceptual overlap was reduced, the relationship between grief and continuing bonds was slightly lower but not significantly so, as happened to the relationship between bonds and well-being. By contrast, the link between grief intensity and well-being did not diminish after deleting the overlapping items. These patterns suggest that future research should continue to explore whether the association between continuing bonds and grief intensity is due to conceptual overlap.
一些关于持续纽带与悲伤强度之间关系的研究称，持续纽带会导致对丧亲之痛的适应不良。然而，持续纽带和悲伤强度的操作化在概念上似乎存在重叠。因此，持续纽带与悲伤之间的联系具有何种特征以及这种关系有多强仍不清楚。本文报告了三项研究，其中两项研究考察了对持续纽带与悲伤强度之间概念重叠的认知，另一项研究考察了减少这种感知到的概念重叠是否会影响持续纽带与悲伤强度之间的关联。在前两项研究中，确定了概念重叠的感知程度，并得出了可以认为重叠较少的纽带和悲伤测量子量表。在第三项研究中，计算了原始量表以及基于删除感知到的重叠而简化后的量表中纽带、悲伤和幸福感之间的关系。当概念重叠减少时，悲伤与持续纽带之间的关系略有降低，但并不显著，纽带与幸福感之间的关系也是如此。相比之下，删除重叠项目后，悲伤强度与幸福感之间的联系并未减弱。这些模式表明，未来的研究应继续探索持续纽带与悲伤强度之间的关联是否归因于概念重叠。
