Narrating Bereavement: Thematic and Grammatical Predictors of Adjustment to Loss

Autor:	Lisa Capps, George A. Bonanno
Rok vydání:	2000
Předmět:	Linguistics and Language Psychotherapist Feeling Communication media_common.quotation_subject Negativity effect Narrative Content (Freudian dream analysis) Psychology Language and Linguistics media_common
Zdroj:	Discourse Processes. 30:1-25
ISSN:	1532-6950 0163-853X
Popis:	Traditional bereavement theories advocate thinking and talking about painful loss-related experiences. This study examined bereavement narratives of 44 individuals as predictors of adjustment over time. Narratives were solicited 6 months postloss, in a semistructured, 6-min interview. Bereaved individuals who more often recounted negative thoughts and feelings and referred to themselves in diminished agentive roles suffered more persistent grief-related symptoms 2-year postloss, as indicated by self-report and clinician ratings. Diminished self-agency predicted outcome beyond negative content. Additionally, readers presented with transcripts of the narratives reported feeling more inclined to avoid and less inclined to comfort individuals whose narratives more frequently manifest such negativity and agentive structuring. Discussion emphasizes the importance of analyzing grammatical structuring of distressed persons' narratives to illuminate the construction of debilitating identities and world views, the ...
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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