ArticlePsychological medicine2023
Grief is a family affair: examining longitudinal associations between prolonged grief in parents and their adult children using four-wave cross-lagged panel models.
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- A preliminary validation of the traumatic grief inventory-kids-caregiver-report (TGI-K-CR).European journal of psychotraumatology · 2026Article
- The Aarhus bereavement study (TABstudy).European journal of epidemiology · 2026Article
- Prolonged grief disorder in bereaved parents: Exploring impacts and treatment pathways.World journal of psychiatry · 2025Review
- Development and validation of the caregiver-report version of the international grief questionnaire (IGQ-CG): Results from a Ukrainian sample of parents.Clinical child psychology and psychiatry · 2024Article
- A role for event centrality in prolonged grief disorder.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Individual and systemic variables associated with prolonged grief and other emotional distress in bereaved children.PloS one · 2024Article
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Abstract
backgroundLosing a parent or spouse in adulthood may result in prolonged grief disorder (PGD) symptoms. PGD levels in parents may affect PGD levels in their adult offspring and the other way around. However, research on transmission of PGD in parent-child dyads is lacking. Consequently, we aimed to examine temporal associations between PGD levels in parent and adult children.
methodsIn doing so, we analyzed longitudinal self-report data on PGD levels (using the PG-13) assessed at 2, 11, 18, and 26 months after loss in 257 adult parent-child dyads from Denmark. Cross-lagged panel modeling was used for data-analyses.
resultsChanges in PGD levels in parents significantly predicted PGD levels in adult children, but not vice versa. Small through moderate cross-lagged effects (
conclusionsPending replication of these findings in clinical samples and younger families, our findings offer tentative support for expanding our focus in research and treatment of PGD from the individual to the family level.
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