Relations Among Meaning Making, PTSD, and Complicated Grief Following Homicide Loss. Issue 3 (3rd April 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Zakarian, Rebecca J.; McDevitt-Murphy, Meghan E.; Bellet, Benjamin W.; Neimeyer, Robert A.; Burke, Laurie A.
• Is Part Of: Journal of loss and trauma. Volume 24:Issue 3(2019)
• Page Start: 279
• Page End: 291
• Publication Date: 2019-04-03
• Subjects: Homicide survivors -- homicide loss -- PTSD -- complicated grief -- meaning making; Loss (Psychology) -- Periodicals; Adjustment (Psychology) -- Periodicals; Life change events -- Periodicals; Interpersonal relations -- Periodicals; 154.4
• DOI: 10.1080/15325024.2019.1565111
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1532-5024

Abstract

Abstract: Survivors of homicide loss are vulnerable to negative mental health outcomes, including posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and complicated grief (CG). Meaning making in the aftermath of traumatic loss is hypothesized to be an adaptive process associated with reduced symptomatology. Homicide survivors ( N = 57) completed the PTSD Checklist, Inventory of Complicated Grief–Revised, and Grief and Meaning Reconstruction Inventory (GMRI). Correlations were found between the GMRI Emptiness and Meaninglessness subscale and both PTSD and CG symptom severity. Results lend support to the notion that reduced meaning making is particularly salient to the expression of PTSD and CG among homicide survivors.