Complicated Grief, Depression, and Anxiety as Distinct Postloss Syndromes: A Confirmatory Factor Analysis Study

OBJECTIVE: The authors used confirmatory factor analysis to replicate earlier findings that complicated grief, depression, and anxiety are distinct syndromes. METHOD: Data were derived from 1,321 bereaved individuals. Complicated grief was measured with the Inventory of Traumatic Grief. Depression a...

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Published in:The American journal of psychiatry 2005-11, Vol.162 (11), p.2175-2177
Main Authors: Boelen, Paul A., van den Bout, Jan
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Anxiety
Anxiety Disorders - diagnosis
Anxiety Disorders - psychology
Bereavement
Biological and medical sciences
Cluster Analysis
Depressive Disorder - diagnosis
Depressive Disorder - psychology
Factor Analysis, Statistical
Female
Grief
Humans
Life Change Events
Male
Medical sciences
Mental depression
Models, Statistical
Nosology. Terminology. Diagnostic criteria
Personality Inventory - statistics & numerical data
Psychiatric Status Rating Scales - statistics & numerical data
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychometrics
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
Reproducibility of Results
Severity of Illness Index
Surveys and Questionnaires
Syndrome
Techniques and methods
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Summary:OBJECTIVE: The authors used confirmatory factor analysis to replicate earlier findings that complicated grief, depression, and anxiety are distinct syndromes. METHOD: Data were derived from 1,321 bereaved individuals. Complicated grief was measured with the Inventory of Traumatic Grief. Depression and anxiety were measured with the SCL-90. RESULTS: A model in which symptoms of complicated grief, depression, and anxiety loaded on separate factors was superior to a one-factor model, revealed good model fit, and was invariant across subgroups. CONCLUSIONS: Previous findings of a distinction among complicated grief, depression, and anxiety were confirmed.
ISSN:0002-953X
1535-7228
DOI:10.1176/appi.ajp.162.11.2175