Parents Grieving the Loss of Their Child”
The article I selected is one titled “Parents Grieving the Loss of Their Child”: from the 2008 issue of the British Journal of Psychology, “Interdependence in Coping,” (Stroebe & Schut 2008). This article is a report of new research which uses a longitudinal study among bereaved parents, to examine relationships between parents own and their partners’ way of coping and psychological adjustments after the death of their child. There were 219 couples evaluated at 6, 13, and 20 months following the death of their child. Parents were asked to fill out questionnaires separately at all three stages. These questionnaires asked about biographical data for the parents, biographical data about the child and a circumstance surrounding the loss of the child was gathering during the 6 month interview.
The articles purpose is to evaluate whether one parent’s way of coping on dealing with the death of a child is influenced by the others parent’s way of coping or dealing with the loss of a child. To do this, couples were contacted using obituary notices and follow up phone calls to ask to participate in the study. No parents that were grandparents or single parents were included. Researchers used the Dual Coping Inventory (DCI), a newly constructed coping line, to measure coping in the loss. The DCI measured loss-oriented scale consisted of three questions that focused on losing their child where the restoration oriental coping scale consisted of four questions focused on moving forward. The dependent variables depression and guide reactions were transformed to a scale of 0-100 to accommodate the comparison between predictive value of depression and grief, with 0 being the lowest score.
The Actor Partner Interdependence Model (APIM) was used to analyze the individual parent effect, the partner effect and any interactions if possible. In this study the action effect estimates the influence that an actor’s own score in the independent variable like restoration-oriented coping, has
The articles purpose is to evaluate whether one parent’s way of coping on dealing with the death of a child is influenced by the others parent’s way of coping or dealing with the loss of a child. To do this, couples were contacted using obituary notices and follow up phone calls to ask to participate in the study. No parents that were grandparents or single parents were included. Researchers used the Dual Coping Inventory (DCI), a newly constructed coping line, to measure coping in the loss. The DCI measured loss-oriented scale consisted of three questions that focused on losing their child where the restoration oriental coping scale consisted of four questions focused on moving forward. The dependent variables depression and guide reactions were transformed to a scale of 0-100 to accommodate the comparison between predictive value of depression and grief, with 0 being the lowest score.
The Actor Partner Interdependence Model (APIM) was used to analyze the individual parent effect, the partner effect and any interactions if possible. In this study the action effect estimates the influence that an actor’s own score in the independent variable like restoration-oriented coping, has