Department of Psychology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA.
Department of Education, Korea University, Seoul, South Korea.
Death Stud. 2022;46(1):178-188. doi: 10.1080/07481187.2020.1725929. Epub 2020 Feb 12.
The current study aimed to develop and investigate the psychometric properties of the Meaning Making in Grief Scale based on contemporary approaches to bereavement adaptation as a meaning reconstruction process. The research entailed three steps: scale development, exploratory factor analysis, and confirmatory factor analysis. The current 21-item scale was composed of three subscales: Meaning of the Significant Other, Being Present, and Coping and Growth. Support was found for the reliability and validity of the scale, as reflected in the high levels of coherence of the subscales and their hypothesized correlation with established measures of meaning and grief symptomatology.
本研究旨在基于当代丧亲适应的方法，即作为意义重构过程的悲伤意义构建，开发和调查悲伤意义量表的心理测量特性。研究包括三个步骤：量表开发、探索性因素分析和验证性因素分析。当前的 21 项量表由三个分量表组成：重要他人的意义、存在和应对与成长。该量表的可靠性和有效性得到了支持，反映在分量表的高度一致性及其与既定意义和悲伤症状学测量的假设相关性上。
