@article{ref1,
title="A loss by suicide: the relationship between meaning-making, post-traumatic growth, and complicated grief",
journal="OMEGA - Journal of death and dying",
year="2023",
author="Delgado, Heather and Goergen, Jessica and Tyler, Jessica and Windham, Heather",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="ePub-ePub",
abstract="Meaning making has been found useful in processing grief, yet individuals who have experienced a loss by suicide may have difficulty with post-loss adjustment due to the traumatic nature of their loss. Through quantitative study, this article acts as an initial exploratory study and examines the relationship between meaning-making, post-traumatic growth, and complicated grief symptoms in 81 college students from a large university in the United States who have experienced the loss of a loved one to suicide. The results of this study indicated that meaning-making serves as a mediator in the relationship with post-traumatic growth and complicated grief. This finding sheds light on the importance of meaning-making as a possible avenue of interventions for clinical use in bereavement from loss by suicide to treat grief symptoms and lead to post-traumatic growth.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0030-2228",
doi="10.1177/00302228231193184",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00302228231193184"
}