Unfinished business and self-blaming emotions among those bereaved by a COVID-19 death.
Death Stud
; 46(6): 1297-1306, 2022.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-1819676
ABSTRACT
In view of the mounting death toll of COVID-19 worldwide and the complicating circumstances that commonly accompany such losses, we studied the grief experiences of 209 adult mourners who lost a loved one to coronavirus with a focus on self-blaming emotions and unresolved issues with the deceased. We found universal endorsement of one or more forms of self-blame (guilt, regret, shame) or unfinished business (UB), with over one-third of mourners endorsing all four experiences. Those having a closer relationship to the deceased reported both greater distress over UB and more intense and dysfunctional grief symptomatology. Strikingly, unresolved conflict, a major dimension of UB, accounted for nearly 40% of the unique variance in problematic grief, which bore no relation to time since the loss.
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International databases
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Bereavement
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COVID-19
Type of study:
Qualitative research
Limits:
Adult
/
Humans
Language:
English
Journal:
Death Stud
Journal subject:
Psychology
/
Health Services
Year:
2022
Document Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
07481187.2022.2067640
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