ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2022
Prolonged Grief Symptoms among Suicide-Loss Survivors: The Contribution of Intrapersonal and Interpersonal Characteristics.
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- Perceived Effectiveness of Components of Interventions to Support People Bereaved By Suicide.Crisis · 2025Pooled it
- Suicidal incidence and gender-based discrepancies in prolonged grief disorder: insights from a meta-analysis and systematic review.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Pooled it
- Rumination in suicide-loss survivors: Psychometric evaluation of the Persian version of the Utrecht Grief Rumination Scale (UGRS).Journal of education and health promotion · 2026Article
- A biopsychosocial & culturally-anchored suicide postvention model for the Philippines.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- Guilt and Unfinished Business in Bereavement: Rumination as a Pathway to Prolonged Grief and Trauma.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Article
- Surviving families: experiences of losing a family member to suicide.Revista latino-americana de enfermagem · 2025Article
- Supportive and non-supportive social experiences following suicide loss: a qualitative study.BMC public health · 2024Article
- What Do We Know about Suicide Bereavement, and What We Can Do to Help Suicide-Loss Survivors?International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Shame, depression, and complicated grief among suicide loss-survivors: the moderating role of self-disclosure.European journal of psychotraumatology · 2023Article
- Depression and Suicide Ideation among Suicide-Loss Survivors: A Six-Year Longitudinal Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundSuicide-loss survivors (SLSs) are a population with unique characteristics that place them at increased risk for developing grief complications and painful feelings of guilt that may impact their supportive social environment. However, no studies to date have examined the role of intrapersonal and interpersonal variables that may contribute to prolonged grief symptoms (PGS) as outlined by the new DSM-5 criteria. The present study aimed to extend knowledge regarding the role of interpersonal variables, such as perceived burdensomeness, thwarted belongingness, and self-disclosure, in determining the impact of guilt on the development of PGS among SLSs.
methodThis study is part of a longitudinal study, though, in this study, we used a cross-sectional examination of the recently completed fourth measurement. Study participants included 152 SLSs aged 22 to 76 who completed questionnaires measuring guilt, depression, perceived burdensomeness, thwarted belongingness, self-disclosure, and PGS using the Prolonged Grief-Revised Inventory. Participants' demographics and loss-related characteristics, such as time since suicide and participant's age at the time of suicide, were examined.
resultsConfirming the hypotheses, intrapersonal variables (i.e., guilt and depression), as well as interpersonal variables (i.e., perceived burdensomeness, thwarted belongingness, and self-disclosure), contributed significantly to PGS beyond sociodemographic and loss-related factors. Perceived burdensomeness significantly moderated the contribution of guilt to PGS: for participants with high burdensomeness levels, guilt contributed to PGS more strongly than for participants with low burdensomeness.
conclusionGuilt is an important contributor to PGS among SLSs, and perceived burdensomeness plays a critical role in moderating this contribution. In light of these findings, it can be suggested that SLSs with high levels of guilt should receive special attention and may benefit from therapeutic interventions focusing on reducing maladaptive cognitions that elicit intense guilt or perceived burden.
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