How are worriers particularly sensitive to grief? Tonic immobility as a mediating factor. Issue 6 (2nd November 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Lee, Sherman A.; Mathis, Amanda A.; Jobe, Mary C.
• Is Part Of: British journal of guidance & counselling. Volume 49:Issue 6(2021)
• Page Start: 845
• Page End: 852
• Publication Date: 2021-11-02
• Subjects: Worry -- grief -- tonic immobility -- somatisation; Educational counseling -- Great Britain -- Periodicals; Vocational guidance -- Great Britain -- Periodicals; 371.4
• DOI: 10.1080/03069885.2020.1772462
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0306-9885

Abstract

ABSTRACT: A growing body of literature has documented the negative outcomes associated with worry. To extend this line of research, we examined why some bereaved college students with the tendency to worry experience intense grief by focusing on psychosomatic symptoms that follow a wave of emotions episode. The results demonstrated that tonic immobility is not only responsible for grief outcomes beyond somatisation, but it also explains some of the bereaved worriers' grief-related pain and dysfunction. Clinical implications and limitations of these results are discussed.