Revised Coping Theory and The Process of Bereavement

6 important questions on Revised Coping Theory and The Process of Bereavement

Why does literature on coping with bereavement lag behind?

- absence of theoretical model of coping specifically to bereavement

Lazarus and Folkman definition of coping

the changing thoughts and acts that an individual uses to manage the external or internal demands of stressful situations.

Several propositions about coping:
- contextual and influenced by appraised characteristics of the person-environment relationship
- process that changes as situation unfolds
-multidimensional process (incl. problem- and emotion-focused functions, approach-avoidance functions, interpersonal and interpersonal functions

Suggests a cause-effect relationship

What is the reason for consistent relationship between active-problem focused coping ad positive affect?

its use gives the individual a sense of control in an illness context that usually makes people feel completely helpless.
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Social-functional interpretation of emotional expression

emotion mediates the individual's adaptation to the social environment and to stressful life events by informing others of one's current state and evoking responses in other that directly influence well-being, relationship satisfaction, and adjustments

Standards for bereavement studies

- longitudinal (started before bereavement)
- comparison groups

2 dimensions to characterization of psychological response to bereavement

- content (type of psychological response have to bereavement and emphasized in studies of bereavement)
- form (whether outcome refers to a point in time or instead to the pattern of the outcome over time. Most studies just focus on the status of an outcome at one or more points in time. but one may also look at the amount of change that has occurred during a given interval, or look at slope of decline (requires three or more measurement points)

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