What determines supportive behaviors following bereavement? A systematic review and call to action

Logan, Emma L; Thornton, Jennifer A.; Breen, Lauren J.

doi:10.1080/07481187.2017.1329760

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“…Through these implicit rules, a dichotomy is created where a loss is either appraised as enfranchised (legitimizing displays of emotion and with the offer of social support) or disenfranchised (where others will not recognize or validate the loss, and support will not be offered; Doka, 2002). How these rules will apply to any given person depend on a complex interplay of factors relating to the deceased (and their manner of death), the bereaved, and the potential supporter (Logan et al, 2017).…”

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“…Two decades ago, Calhoun and Allen (1991) produced a literature review of 17 studies which identified three participant-related factors (age, gender, bereavement experience) and four decedent-related factors (age, gender, cause of death, family composition) that determined social reactions to suicide bereavement. Logan et al (2017) conducted a systematic review of the entire bereavement literature and identified 42 studies yielding six participant-related factors (gender, bereavement experience, normative beliefs, current bereavement status, age, and familiarity with cause of death), five decedent-related factors (cause of death, anticipation of death, gender, age, and motive for suicidal death), and five bereaved-related factors (gender, time since death, relationship to the deceased, perception of coping, and perceived social support). This review highlighted significant methodological 6 flaws and omissions in this research base, including inconsistent outcome measures with poor or no psychometric properties, little to no control of extraneous variables, nonrepresentative samples, and low power to detect possible relationships.…”

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Social support following bereavement: The role of beliefs, expectations, and support intentions

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Social support is one of the strongest determinants of bereavement outcomes, yet little is understood about the community's recognition of grief and intentions to provide social support to grieving persons. A total of 476 adults responded to an online vignette and questionnaire measuring grief norms and supportive intentions. Respondent gender, age, and bereavement status all had some association with expectations of grief, intentions to support, perceived helpfulness of support attempts, and opinions toward the diagnostic classification of grief. Given that most bereavement support is informal, this study informs the development of community capacity to provide constructive, timely bereavement support.

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Social support following bereavement: The role of beliefs, expectations, and support intentions

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“…The findings of this research suggest that professionals supporting those who have been bereaved through sudden and/or violent causes, and especially those bereaved through suicide, should consider how the quantity and quality of available informal social support could be increased as a potential means to improve outcomes for their service users [19].…”

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“…Informal social support is therefore the most accessable and personalisable type of support available to those bereaved through violent and/or unexpected causes [19]: interventions to improve access to informal social support for people in this situation could therefore be valuable if its relationship to higher levels of wellbeing is established in this context.…”

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A systematic review of studies describing the influence of informal social support on psychological wellbeing in people bereaved by sudden or violent causes of death

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Kozhuharova

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Aims Whilst all bereavements are traumatic, bereavement through violent or unexpected causes is associated with more severe negative health and wellbeing outcomes compared to other types of loss. Social support has been found to have a positive impact on wellbeing after traumatic events in general. However, this association appears to be less consistently demonstrated in studies that focus on bereavement, and the literature in this area has not yet been systematically reviewed. This study aimed to review the international literature to examine systematically whether there is an association between informal social support from family and friends after bereavement through sudden and/or violent causes and post-bereavement wellbeing. Methods We conducted a systematic search for quantitative studies that tested for an association between social support and any outcome related to wellbeing after a sudden and/or violent loss. Included studies were assessed for risk of bias, and findings were reported using the approach of narrative synthesis. The review was pre-registered on Prospero (registration number CRD42018093704). Results We identified 16 papers that met inclusion criteria, all of which we assessed as having generally low or moderate risk of bias. 15 different wellbeing outcomes were measured across all studies. We found consistent evidence for an inverse association between social support and symptoms/presence of depression, predominantly consistent evidence for an inverse association between social support and symptoms/presence of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and conflicting evidence for an inverse association between social support and symptoms/presence of complicated grief. Conclusions Our systematic review identified evidence to suggest that social support after sudden or violent bereavement is associated with a reduced severity of depressive and PTSD symptoms. Further longitudinal research is needed to explore potential causality in this relationship, widening the focus from common mental disorders to include other mental illnesses, wellbeing outcomes, and suicide-related outcomes after bereavement. There is also a need for consensus on the conceptualisation and measurement of social support. Our findings imply that interventions to improve access to and quality of social support may reduce the burden of mental illness after bereavement, and may therefore be worth investing in.

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“…Štaviše, nemali broj poruka koje tugujući dobijaju od njihove socijalne mreže može da nanese više štete nego koristi (Bodie et al, 2010). Da bi socijalna podrška bila efikasna, neophodno je da pojedinac koji želi da je pruži prvo prepozna potrebu za njom, zatim da bude sposoban i voljan za ovu vrstu pomagačkog ponašanja, a kao najbitnije, nužno je da primalac percipira pokušaj pomoći kao koristan i (koliko god je to moguće) utešan vid komunikacije (Logan, Thornton, & Breen, 2018). Pojedini autori navode razne oblike jednoznačno negativnih, pa i povređujućih reakcija koje određene tugujuće osobe doživljavaju od strane prirodnih "pomagača".…”

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Konstrukcija Upitnika Podrške Tugujućima: Provera Faktorske Strukture I Metrijskih Karakteristika

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Rajić

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Socijalna podrška tugujućim osobama predstavlja važnu psiho- lošku oblast, koja se u nekoliko poslednjih decenija nalazi u foku- su sve većeg broja empirijskih studija. Međutim, u domaćoj nauci fenomen pružanja verbalne podrške ožalošćenima tek počinje da se uvodi u repertoar istraživačkih problema. Stoga je osnovni cilj ovog istraživanja bio pionirski poduhvat, koji je podrazume- vao konstruisanje upitnika za ispitivanje suportivnog potencijala poruka koje neposredno socijalno okruženje uobičajeno upućuje pojedincima u procesu žaljenja zbog smrti bliske osobe. Pored Upitnika podrške tugujućima, u radu su prikazane faktorska struk- tura, kao i psihometrijske karakteristike novokonstruisanog instru- menta. Drugi cilj istraživanja odnosio se na utvrđivanje stepena (ne)korisnosti različitih poruka upućenih ožalošćenima, a ispitan je i odnos između doživljene korisnosti poruka i stepena njihove usmerenosti na tugujuću osobu. Istraživanje je sprovedeno na prigodnom uzorku od 301 ispitanika. Dobijeni rezultati ukazuju na to da se radi o validnom i pouzdanom instrumentu, čija se kom- pozitn1a struktura sastoji od pet dimenzija: Socijalna podrška, Minimiziranje osećanja tugujućeg, Isticanje religijske perspektive, Komplimentiranje i normalizacija osećanja tugujućeg i Nuđenje konkretne pomoći. Drugi deo rezultata potvrđuje očekivanje da stepen usmerenosti na osobu predstavlja odgovarajuće teorijsko objašnjenje različitog intenziteta delotvornosti poruka upućenih osobama u procesu tugovanja.

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What determines supportive behaviors following bereavement? A systematic review and call to action

Cited by 56 publications

References 51 publications

Social support following bereavement: The role of beliefs, expectations, and support intentions

Social support following bereavement: The role of beliefs, expectations, and support intentions

A systematic review of studies describing the influence of informal social support on psychological wellbeing in people bereaved by sudden or violent causes of death

Konstrukcija Upitnika Podrške Tugujućima: Provera Faktorske Strukture I Metrijskih Karakteristika

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