Afrontamiento de adultos ante el duelo por pérdida de los padres en una funeraria de Cuenca

Abstract

This research has as general objective to describe the coping strategies in adults after the mourning because of the death of their father and/or mother. The study was quantitative and the descriptive design was cross section. The research was made with 45 people, distributed in: 28 women and 17 men who had psychological assist in “el Centro de apoyo al duelo (CAD).” The instruments used were Sociodemographic Record, Inventory of Complicated Grief (IDC), and Coping Strategies Inventory (CSI). Among the main results it can be highlighted that social withdrawal is the most used coping strategy followed by the problem avoidance. Parallel to this result, solving problems is the least used strategy. After the IDC analysis, the results could be classified by absence and intensity of complicated grief. It was identified that 9 people have a serious presence of complicated grief; 25 moderate presence; 10 slight presence and 1 person does not have it. As a conclusion, the participants who use less problem solving as a coping strategy show moderate presence of complicated grief. The presence of a complicated grief in the studied population could be because of the fact that the most used coping strategy is a predictor of complicated grief.