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Prolonged Grief Disorder and the Association with Social Contact: An Experience Sampling Study
Treur, Annelies (2024) Prolonged Grief Disorder and the Association with Social Contact: An Experience Sampling Study.
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| Abstract: | It may be that social contact is associated with PGD symptoms, however, research with an objective measurement is still missing. This study examined to what extent social contact and PGD symptoms of bereaved people are associated and how the type of relationship moderates the effect between the perceived pleasantness of social contact and PGD symptoms of bereaved people.Experience Sampling Methodology (ESM) was used. Eighty bereaved adults completed questionnaires about who they were with and how pleasant they evaluated their social contact five times a day for 14 days. The regression analysis that was used to answer the first research question showed that the amount of social contact has a significant and negative effect on the PGD symptoms of bereaved people. Moreover, the moderation analysis that was used to answer the second research question showed that the type of relationship moderates the effect between perceived pleasantness and PGD symptoms. Specifically, pleasant contact with people is negatively associated with PGD symptoms, and this effect is larger when the bereaved have contact with people outside their nuclear family than when it concerns contact with people within their nuclear family. |
| Item Type: | Essay (Bachelor) |
| Faculty: | BMS: Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences |
| Subject: | 77 psychology |
| Programme: | Psychology BSc (56604) |
| Link to this item: | https://purl.utwente.nl/essays/100127 |
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