Adaptation and Validation of the Texas Revised Inventory of Grief-Present Scale.

This study aims to evaluate the psychometric properties and internal consistency of the Spanish version of the Texas Revised Inventory of Grief- Present [TRIG-Present] in Buenos Aires, Argentina, which assesses a series of thoughts, emotions and behaviors in losses related to the present. A total of 285 adults participated in the study with ages between 18 and 80 years (M = 55.09, SD = 15.27) and both sexes (Men = 42.8%, Women = 57.2%). The three-factor model resulted in acceptable fit indices (TLI = .970; CFI = .976; SRMR = .064). The results indicated an acceptable internal consistency for Emotional Response (ω = .850), Not Acceptance (ω = .816) and Thought (ω = .837). The spanish adaptation of the TRIG-Present presents 13 items proposed by the original authors.

Body talk and resilience: Aging men's experiences with mastectomy and prostatectomy.

Men's experiences with gendered cancers hinge on at least two axes - their masculinities and their age. This article offers a thematic synthesis of the qualitative research on men living with breast cancer or prostate cancer. This is a qualitative meta-analysis assessing how masculinities and aging may jointly affect men's narratives post-mastectomy or post-prostatectomy. Of particular interest was whether and how aging mediates the experience of these gendered cancers. Reviewed were all qualitative studies published between 2000 and 2020 addressing men's breast cancer and post-mastectomy experiences (N = 15) and men's lives after their prostatectomy (N = 28). The analysis followed the guidelines for thematic synthesis and grounded theory. Free codes of findings were organized into "descriptive" themes, which are then further interpreted to yield "analytical" themes. Seven descriptive themes were identified and these underlie two analytical themes - body talk and resilience. Collectively, men's illness narratives spoke about how cancer challenges their gendered identities and practices, and how they repair identities. The common experience was one of men coming to live with their post-surgical bodies by practicing 'wider,' hybrid forms of masculinities. The principal finding is that men with either type of cancer saw themselves as men and remained seen by others in terms of their gender, not their anatomically changed bodies. Unresolved was the full way aging complemented and mediated the cancer journey.

Difficulties accepting the loss of a spouse: a precursor for intensified grieving among widowed older adults.

Previous research has identified three distinct factors that make up the Texas Revised Inventory of Grief-Present (TRIG-Present) scale, which tap into grief related thoughts, emotional response, and nonacceptance regarding a loss. In the present study, the authors sought to identify which of these core grief experiences in the early aftermath of loss are predictive of subsequent intensified grieving. Information was collected from 169 conjugally bereaved older adults at 2- and 12-months following the loss of their spouse. Using a cross-lagged panel design, early experiences of nonacceptance were found to significantly predict more intense grief experiences later on; whereas grief-related thoughts and emotional response were not strongly related to grief at 12-months postloss, after accounting for synchronous (cross-sectional) and autoregressive (stability in the same factor over time) associations. These findings suggest that practitioners working with bereaved clients should pay close attention to early expressions of nonacceptance.

Factorial validity of the Texas Revised Inventory of Grief-Present scale among bereaved older adults.

The Texas Revised Inventory of Grief-Present scale (TRIG-Present) is one of the most widely used grief measures; however, researchers have only empirically examined the validity and underlying factor structure of TRIG-Present scores in a few studies. Hence, in the present investigation, we sought to examine the factorial validity of the TRIG-Present (those scores that index current grief) among 2 samples of bereaved older adults--a community-dwelling sample of 162 individuals who experienced a diverse set of losses in terms of relationship to the deceased and time since loss, and a recently widowed sample of 212 individuals who were assessed at 2-months and 12-months postloss. Across both samples, we found support for a 3-factor model, composed of clusters of items representing Emotional Response, Thoughts, and Nonacceptance regarding a loss. Additionally, this 3-factor model exhibited significant invariance from 2-months to 12-months postloss in the recently widowed sample. Analyses examining the convergent validity of these 3 factors also suggest that this conceptualization of the TRIG-Present could have practical advantages and potentially influence the way in which clinicians and/or researchers assess grief and evaluate bereavement interventions.