Why do bereaved partners experience interfering rumination? Evidence for deficits in cognitive inhibition
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Recurring rumination is strongly associated with grief reactions severity. The authors investigated whether deficits in cognitive inhibition were related to such a dysfunctional process. Inhibition was examined among 61 low- or high-ruminating bereaved partners in a negative affective priming task with grief-related negative and positive words. Results revealed impaired inhibition for grief-related information in comparison with negative and positive information in bereaved individuals with elevated rumination. When accounting for differences in grief reactions, the present findings did not however confirm the hypothesis of a direct link between variations in inhibition performances and rumination. Implications for future research and clinical perspectives are discussed.
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Depressive rumination is higher in bereaved people with probable complicated grief compared to those without.
“Depressive rumination (thinking repetitively about causes and consequences of depressive symptoms) is higher in bereaved people with probable CG compared to those without (Delespaux & Zech, 2015).”
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- Authors
- Delespaux, E., & Zech, E.
- Affiliations
- UCLouvain (BE)
- Corresponding author
- Delespaux, Emily
- ORCID
- Zech, Emmanuelle
- Venue
- Death Studies
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2015-02-13
- Volume
- 39
- Issue
- 8
- Pages
- 463-472
- ISSN
- 0748-1187 (ISSN-L)
- 1091-7683
- OpenAlex
- W1992813344
- Cited by
- 13
- References
- 32
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 1 · 2020: 2 · 2018: 2 · 2017: 1 · 2016: 1 · 2015: 1
- FWCI
- 2.07
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Death Studies (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- DIAL (Catholic University of Leuven) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Research reported in this article was supported by a special research grant from the Université catholique de Louvain awarded to Emmanuelle Zech.
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion
- Social Sciences › Anthropology › Death, Funerary Practices, and Mourning
- Keywords
- bereavement, rumination, cognitive inhibition, grief, grief reactions
- MeSH terms
- Bereavement, Cognition, Cognition Disorders, Female, Grief, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Neuropsychological Tests, Spouses
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