Buyukcan-Tetik Asuman, Finkenauer Catrin, Schut Henk, Stroebe Margaret, Stroebe Wolfgang
Utrecht University.
Department of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, Utrecht University.
J Fam Psychol. 2017 Jun;31(4):409-419. doi: 10.1037/fam0000252. Epub 2016 Oct 10.
The present research focused on bereaved parents' perceived grief similarity, and aimed to investigate the concurrent and longitudinal effects of the perceptions that the partner has less, equal, or more grief intensity than oneself on relationship satisfaction. Participants of our longitudinal study were 229 heterosexual bereaved Dutch couples who completed questionnaires 6, 13, and 20 months after the loss of their child. Average age of participants was 40.7 (SD = 9.5). Across 3 study waves, participants' perceived grief similarity and relationship satisfaction were assessed. To control for their effects, own grief level, child's gender, expectedness of loss, parent's age, parent's gender, and time were also included in the analyses. Consistent with the hypotheses, cross-sectional results revealed that bereaved parents who perceived dissimilar levels of grief (less or more grief) had lower relationship satisfaction than bereaved parents who perceived similar levels of grief. This effect remained significant controlling for the effects of possible confounding variables and actual similarity in grief between partners. We also found that perceived grief similarity at the first study wave was related to the highest level of relationship satisfaction at the second study wave. Moreover, results showed that perceived grief similarity was associated with a higher level in partner's relationship satisfaction. Results are discussed considering the comparison and similarity in grief across bereaved partners after child loss. (PsycINFO Database Record
本研究聚焦于丧亲父母感知到的悲伤相似性，旨在调查伴侣的悲伤强度低于、等于或高于自己的这种认知对关系满意度的同时期和纵向影响。我们纵向研究的参与者是229对异性恋丧亲荷兰夫妇，他们在失去孩子后的6个月、13个月和20个月完成了问卷调查。参与者的平均年龄为40.7岁（标准差=9.5）。在3个研究阶段中，评估了参与者感知到的悲伤相似性和关系满意度。为了控制其影响，分析中还纳入了自身的悲伤程度、孩子的性别、丧亲的预期性、父母的年龄、父母的性别以及时间。与假设一致，横断面结果显示，感知到悲伤程度不同（低于或高于自己）的丧亲父母比感知到悲伤程度相似的丧亲父母关系满意度更低。在控制了可能的混杂变量的影响以及伴侣之间悲伤的实际相似性后，这种效应仍然显著。我们还发现，在第一个研究阶段感知到的悲伤相似性与第二个研究阶段的最高关系满意度水平相关。此外，结果表明，感知到的悲伤相似性与伴侣关系满意度的较高水平相关。考虑到丧亲伴侣在孩子去世后的悲伤比较和相似性，对结果进行了讨论。（PsycINFO数据库记录）
