A Loss by Suicide: The Relationship Between Meaning-Making, Post-Traumatic Growth, and Complicated Grief

Author:

Delgado Heather1ORCID,Goergen Jessica1,Tyler Jessica2,Windham Heather3

Affiliation:

1. Department of Special Education, Rehabilitation, and Counseling, Auburn University, Auburn, AL, USA

2. Department of Human and Organizational Development, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA

3. Department of Human Studies, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA

Abstract

Meaning making has been found useful in processing grief, yet individuals who have experienced a loss by suicide may have difficulty with post-loss adjustment due to the traumatic nature of their loss. Through quantitative study, this article acts as an initial exploratory study and examines the relationship between meaning-making, post-traumatic growth, and complicated grief symptoms in 81 college students from a large university in the United States who have experienced the loss of a loved one to suicide. The results of this study indicated that meaning-making serves as a mediator in the relationship with post-traumatic growth and complicated grief. This finding sheds light on the importance of meaning-making as a possible avenue of interventions for clinical use in bereavement from loss by suicide to treat grief symptoms and lead to post-traumatic growth.

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Subject

Life-span and Life-course Studies,Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine,Health (social science)

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