These findings highlight the importance of periodically reassessing bereavement-related regrets (and perhaps other aspects of the continued relationship with the deceased) over time and support the rationale behind interventions designed to facilitate resolution of these issues.

Teachers in violent communities are at risk for breakdowns in global meaning, burnout, and a number of psychiatric consequences. Using a Spanish version of the Integration of Stressful Life Experiences Scale (ISLES-S), this study provided a preliminary test of the instrument and examined the role of meaning made of a salient Stressor among a sample of 257 teachers from ElSalvador who had experienced a variety of possible traumas and stressful life events. Study participants completed a one-time questionnaire with the ISLES-S, history of violence exposure and other background concerns, and a number of related constructs from the positive psychology and spirituality literatures. Psychometric results indicted evidence of concurrent validity and supported a two-factor structure for the ISLES-S with items loading on both a Comprehensibility factor (gauging meaning made via assimilative processes) and a Footing in the World factor (gauging meaning made via accommodative processes). In addition, when controlling for demographic factors, violence exposure, and related constructs, teachers ' ability to make

These findings suggest that the circumstance of being bereaved may be associated with more dysregulated cortisol, regardless of PGD symptomatology. This pattern of results might reflect greater disturbance in daily routines among bereaved individuals and acute stress in the case of those experiencing the recent loss of a spouse, which leads to disruption in circadian rhythms and the diurnal cycle of cortisol.

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