Publications by authors named "Eva Stelzer"

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  • Social acknowledgment plays a protective role for trauma survivors, but its specific impact on prolonged grief symptoms remains unclear, leading to this study's exploration.
  • The research involved 154 German-speaking and 262 Chinese individuals who had lost loved ones, examining their beliefs about grief-related emotions and how these beliefs relate to social acknowledgment and prolonged grief symptoms.
  • Results indicated that social acknowledgment is positively associated with beliefs about the goodness and controllability of grief-related emotions, which in turn are negatively correlated with prolonged grief symptoms, suggesting that these beliefs mediate the relationship between social acknowledgment and grief outcomes across cultures.
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Cultural norms may dictate how grief is displayed. The present study explores the display behaviours and rules in the bereavement context from a cross-cultural perspective. 86 German-speaking Swiss and 99 Chinese bereaved people who lost their first-degree relative completed the adapted bereavement version of the Display Rules Assessment Inventory.

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Objective: Existential isolation refers to an individual's awareness of the unbridgeable gulf between oneself, other people and the world. This kind of isolation has been found to be higher in individuals with nonnormative experiences, such as racial or sexual minorities. Bereaved individuals may experience a stronger sense of existential isolation and feel that no one shares their feelings or perceptions.

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