Rumination, worry and negative and positive affect in prolonged grief: A daily diary study

Abstract

After bereavement, a significant minority experiences severe, persistent, and disabling grief, termed prolonged grief or complicated grief. Prolonged grief treatments may be enhanced by improving understanding of malleable risk factors in post-loss psychological adaptation. Repetitive negative thought (e.g., rumination, worry) constitutes such a risk factor. Rumination and worry are both theorized to be maladaptive

Validation of the Korean version of the Utrecht Grief Rumination Scale and its relationship with COVID‐related hypochondriasis among healthcare workers who witnessed patient deaths

“…This phenomenon persisted after the pandemic had ended (Rahmani et al., 2023). Repetitive negative thoughts such as rumination and worry are risk factors for severe and persistent complicated grief due to loss (Eisma et al., 2022). There are two kinds of rumination: depressive rumination and grief rumination.…”

The impact of past temporal discounting on mental health: Opposite effects of positive and negative event aftertastes over time

“…In the same vein, non-robust PTD paths (i.e., rapid discounting of the affect intensity for positive events or slow discounting of the affect intensity for negative events) could lead to diminished positive affect and amplified negative affect when recalling everyday past life events, which would become a risk factor for mental disorders. For instance, when recalling past negative events, patients with posttraumatic stress disorder or depression tended to frequently ruminate on them accompanied by amplified negative affect ( Donaldson & Lam, 2004 ; Eisma et al, 2022 ; Nolen-Hoeksema et al, 2008 ), which might be explained by non-robust PTD paths for negative events (PTD-negative). On the other hand, when recalling past positive events, the patients with depression experienced less positive affect compared with the controls ( Begovic et al, 2017 ), which might be explained by non-robust PTD paths for positive events (PTD-positive).…”