The relation of continuing attachment to adjustment in conjugal bereavement.

J Consult Clin Psychol

Department of Psychology, Pacific Graduate School of Psychology, Palo Alto, California 94303, USA.

Published: April 1999

The role of continuing attachment in adjustment to conjugal loss was examined. At 6 months postloss, 70 midlife bereaved participants were interviewed to assess different forms of continuing attachment. They also engaged in a monologue role-play with their deceased spouse, providing a behavioral measure of grief-related distress. In addition, they completed general and grief-specific symptom inventories at 6 months and again at 14 and 25 months postloss. The results indicated that use of the deceased's possessions to gain comfort was positively correlated with concurrent distress in the role-play and predictive to less of a decrease in grief-specific symptoms over time in a growth curve analysis. In contrast, attachment through fond memories was related to less distress in the role-play. The results, therefore, suggest that whether continuing attachment is adaptive or not depends on its form.

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