a Department of Clinical Psychology , Utrecht University , Utrecht , The Netherlands.
b Department of Social, Health and Organizational Psychology , Utrecht University , Utrecht , The Netherlands.
Anxiety Stress Coping. 2019 Jul;32(4):428-442. doi: 10.1080/10615806.2019.1619703. Epub 2019 May 19.
Research on complicated grief (CG) symptoms following job loss is surprisingly rare. Involuntary job loss can turn someone's world upside down and can result in loss of identity, social contacts, and self-worth. In this study, we drew on the literature on major life events in conceptualizing involuntary job loss as a significant and potentially devastating life event. The aim of this study was to develop and evaluate an instrument that measures job loss-related CG symptoms, the Job Loss Grief Scale (JLGS). The purpose of the JLGS is to foster systematic research on CG symptoms following job loss. A cross-sectional study We recruited Dutch workers who had lost their job, 130 men and 158 women with an average age of 49.6 years. To examine the psychometric properties of the JLGS and its associations with other concepts we conducted correlational and confirmatory factor analyses. CFA revealed that the JLGS was a one-dimensional instrument, and that CG symptoms were distinguishable from depression and anxiety symptoms. The JLGS is a reliable and valid instrument to measure job loss-related CG symptoms. The availability of the JLGS could stimulate systematic research on the antecedents and consequences of involuntary job loss.
关于失业后复杂悲伤（CG）症状的研究非常罕见。非自愿性失业可能会让人的世界天翻地覆，并导致身份、社会联系和自我价值的丧失。在这项研究中，我们借鉴了关于重大生活事件的文献，将非自愿性失业概念化为重大且潜在破坏性的生活事件。本研究旨在开发和评估一种衡量与失业相关 CG 症状的工具，即失业悲伤量表（JLGS）。JLGS 的目的是促进对失业后 CG 症状的系统研究。
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我们招募了荷兰失业工人，其中男性 130 人，女性 158 人，平均年龄为 49.6 岁。为了检验 JLGS 的心理测量特性及其与其他概念的关系，我们进行了相关性和验证性因素分析。CFA 表明 JLGS 是一个一维的工具，CG 症状与抑郁和焦虑症状是可区分的。JLGS 是一种可靠和有效的工具，可衡量与失业相关的 CG 症状。JLGS 的可用性可以刺激对非自愿性失业的前因和后果的系统研究。
