TY - JOUR
T1 - Investigating the hypothesis that coping and nonattachment mediate complicated grief onto hoarding
AU - Lawrence, Lee Matthew
AU - Elphinstone, Bradley
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - One hundred and four participants across Australia (M age = 58.28, SD = 12.84; 52.9% male; 1% did not indicate) completed online questionnaires to investigate complicated grief (CG) symptoms, coping, and nonattachment onto hoarding behavior. Generally speaking, expected correlations were found. The hypothesis that coping and nonattachment would mediate grief onto hoarding was partially supported. Only mental disengagement reported to partially mediate the relationship between CG and hoarding. Hoarding can be explained in part by attempts to distract oneself from negative emotions of loss, perhaps at best viewed as a risk factor maintaining hoarding, when considering the methodology.
AB - One hundred and four participants across Australia (M age = 58.28, SD = 12.84; 52.9% male; 1% did not indicate) completed online questionnaires to investigate complicated grief (CG) symptoms, coping, and nonattachment onto hoarding behavior. Generally speaking, expected correlations were found. The hypothesis that coping and nonattachment would mediate grief onto hoarding was partially supported. Only mental disengagement reported to partially mediate the relationship between CG and hoarding. Hoarding can be explained in part by attempts to distract oneself from negative emotions of loss, perhaps at best viewed as a risk factor maintaining hoarding, when considering the methodology.
KW - coping
KW - diagnostic implications
KW - grief
KW - Hoarding
KW - nonattachment
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85070832874&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/15325024.2019.1645444
DO - 10.1080/15325024.2019.1645444
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85070832874
VL - 24
SP - 750
EP - 765
JO - Journal of Loss and Trauma
JF - Journal of Loss and Trauma
SN - 1532-5024
IS - 8
ER -