2011 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

A study of the life-span developmental function on meaning reconstruction in response to loss experience among elderly people and an intervention program to promote this function

Research Project

Project/Area Number	21330164
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Section	一般
Research Field	Clinical psychology
Research Institution	J. F. Oberlin University (2010-2011) Tokyo Metropolitan Geriatric Hospital and Institute of Gerontology (2009)
Principal Investigator	KAWAAI Chieko 桜美林大学, 加齢・発達研究所, 客員研究員 (00142646)
Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha)	SASAKI Masahiro 聖心女子大学, 文学部, 教授 (50162384)
Project Period (FY)	2009 – 2011
Keywords	配偶者との死別 / 介入研究 / 高齢者 / 長期縦断研究 / 悲嘆の回復 / 生命予後 / 人間的成長
Research Abstract	Most participants had recovered from grief at the time of the fourth survey in "The Longitudinal study on elderly bereaved spouses", despite about 30 percent of the participants having passed away in the nine years since the first survey. The mortality factors were explained using Cox's Proportional Hazards Model. The intervention program, which involves the bereaved spouse talking about his/her life with the deceased, has been shown to promote personal growth. The program appears to give opportunity for meaning reconstruction after spousal bereavement.

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