Citation

Bhushan B, Kumar S, Harizuka S. J. Soc. Work End Life Palliat. Care 2011; 7(2-3): 263-280.

Affiliation

Department of Humanities and Social Sciences , Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur , Kanpur , India.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2011, Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

10.1080/15524256.2011.593160

PMID

21895440

Abstract

Campus suicides have increased manifold across academic institutions, often leaving unresolved bereavement issues in these institutions, primarily because students are supposed to carry on with their daily activities with little or no time and attention paid to this necessary process. In this study, the role of cognitive-emotional processes in coping, especially when one is grieving a death, was investigated through a comparison between 40 bereaved Japanese and Indian female college students. The participants were assessed for resilience, cognitive-emotional regulation, posttraumatic cognition, and coping strategies in the aftermath of the suicide death of someone close. Positive reappraisal mediated the relationship between resilience and proactive coping, whereas negative cognitions about the self mediated the relationship between resilience and proactive as well as reflective coping. The participants from the two cultures differed significantly on resilience, with Indians scoring higher than Japanese young adults. The findings are analyzed in light of the coping with distressful life events model and could have possible implications for social workers and/or mental health professionals in terms of acceptability of interventions.

Language: en