Citation

Goetter E, Bui E, Horenstein A, Baker AW, Hoeppner S, Charney M, Simon NM. Death Stud. 2019; 43(3): 204-209.

Affiliation

Harvard Medical School , Boston , MA , USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2019, Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

10.1080/07481187.2018.1446059

PMID

29498608

Abstract

Knowledge about what psychological characteristics underlie complicated grief (CG) is limited. The current study examined the five factor personality traits in 81 bereaved adults with (n = 51) and without (n = 30) CG. A trained doctoral-level clinician evaluated these people using a structured, diagnostic psychiatric interview, and they completed self-report measures of grief and personality. A multiple regression model indicated that higher levels of neuroticism were associated with greater CG symptom severity, implicating neuroticism in the development of CG. Future prospective studies confirming it as a risk factor for the development of CG are warranted.

Language: en

Keywords

complicated grief; five factor model; grief; neuroticism; personality