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Measuring core bereavement phenomena.
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As part of a longitudinal study of bereavement phenomena in three groups, bereaved spouses, bereaved adult children and bereaved parents, scale development was carried out using a pool of bereavement phenomenology questions administered prospectively. The items were derived from the literature, in particular studies dealing with the measurement of grief/bereavement, as well as from clinical experience. Factor analysis of theoretically grouped items produced seven subscales, three of which tapped frequently experienced phenomena in the bereaved. These three subscales formed the basis of a single measure, labelled the Core Bereavement Items (CBI), which demonstrated high reliability and sound face and discriminant validity. Preliminary analysis suggested that the CBI will prove to be a reliable and valid instrument with respect to the measure of core bereavement phenomena in commonly bereaved groups in Western society.
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“Although these assessment instruments all exhibited acceptable psychometric properties (Burnett et al., 1997; Byrne and Raphael, 1994; Prigerson et al., 2009, 1995b; Prigerson and Jacobs, 2001; Shear et al., 2006), possible differences between the scales in how the construct is measured could pose a challenge for comparison.”
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“Data was collected using the Prolonged Grief Disorder scale, PG-13 (Prigerson et al., 2009) (n = 6), the Inventory of Complicated Grief and the Inventory of Complicated Grief-Revised, (ICG/ICG-R) (Prigerson et al., 1995; Prigerson and Jacobs, 2001) (n = 7), the Inventory of Traumatic Grief (ITG) (HG. Prigerson et al., 1999) (n = 2), and the Core Bereavement Items (CBI) (n = 2) (Burnett et al., 199”
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- BURNETT, P., MIDDLETON, W., RAPHAEL, B., & MARTINEK, N.
- Affiliations
- Queensland University of Technology (AU)
- ORCID
- MIDDLETON, W.
- Venue
- Psychological Medicine
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (CUP)
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- 1997-01
- Volume
- 27
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 49-57
- ISSN
- 0033-2917 (ISSN-L)
- 1469-8978
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- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health
- Social Sciences › Anthropology › Death, Funerary Practices, and Mourning
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Management Science and Operations Research › Psychometric Methodologies and Testing
- Keywords
- bereavement, grief, scale development, bereaved spouses, bereaved parents, psychometric validation, factor analysis
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Bereavement, Factor Analysis, Statistical, Female, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Parents, Prospective Studies, Psychometrics, Time Factors, Reproducibility of Results, Discriminant Analysis, Spouses
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