Maladaptive coping in adults who have experienced early parental loss and grief counseling

Beverley Lim Høeg; Charlotte W. Appel; Annika B. von Heymann-Horan; Kirsten Frederiksen; Christoffer Johansen; Per Bøge; Annemarie Dencker; Atle Dyregrov; Birgit B. Mathiesen; Pernille E. Bidstrup

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Maladaptive coping in adults who have experienced early parental loss and grief counseling

Beverley Lim Høeg^*, Charlotte W. Appel, Annika B. von Heymann-Horan, Kirsten Frederiksen, Christoffer Johansen, Per Bøge, Annemarie Dencker, Atle Dyregrov, Birgit B. Mathiesen, Pernille E. Bidstrup

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Department of Clinical Medicine

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Abstract

This study compares maladaptive coping, measured as substance use, behavioral disengagement, self-blame, and emotional eating, among adults (>18 years) who have experienced early parental loss (N = 1465 women, N = 331 men) with non-bereaved controls (N = 515 women, N = 115 men). We also compared bereaved adults who received grief counseling (N = 822 women, N = 190 men) with bereaved controls who had not (N = 233 women, N = 66 men). Bereaved adults reported significantly more substance use, behavioral disengagement, and emotional eating than non-bereaved adults. Counseling participants reported significantly more substance use and self-blame than non-participants. Our results suggest that early loss may negatively impact the development of adulthood coping.

Original language	English
Journal	Journal of Health Psychology
Volume	22
Issue number	14
Pages (from-to)	1851-1861
Number of pages	11
ISSN	1359-1053
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/1359105316638550
Publication status	Published - Dec 2017

Keywords

children
coping
counseling
grief
parental loss

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