Year: 2023
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: Over 564,000 people died from an opioid-related overdose from 1999 to 2020. Minimal research has examined factors contributing to grief outcomes for the thousands of people mourning these stigmatized deaths. Informed by the model of resilience and transactional model of stress, this study investigated the degree to which disenfranchised grief, social support, and coping predicted grief outcomes in a sample of 159 people grieving an opioid-related death. When predicting prolonged grief, avoidant emotional coping (β = 0.55) alone accounted for unique variance. Active emotional coping (β = 0.28) and problem-focused coping (β = 0.40) explained unique variance in posttraumatic growth. These findings may inform research and clinical practice and improve grief outcomes for this vast, and understudied population.
Source: The Counseling Psychologist
Authors: Erin M. Hill, Karen M. O’Brien
Institution: University of Maryland, College Park
Language: English
Subfield: Clinical Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
Funder: University of Maryland
OpenAlex ID: W4387781771