Sustainable Development Goals
Abstract/Objectives
There are three purposes in the present study as follows: The first is to understand the relationship between complicated grief, posttraumatic growth, resilience, and avoidant coping strategy. The second is to explore how resilience affects the recovery process of suicide survivors. The third is to purpose the possible direction of intervention for suicide survivors.
Results/Contributions

We recruited 183 participants who were bereaved by suicide and aged between 20 and 65 years old via an online survey. Each participant completed five measures: demographics, Brief COPE, Prolonged Grief Incentory-13-Revised, Posttraumatic Growth Inventory-Short Form, and Conner-Davidson Resilience Scale-10. SPSS was used to verify the hypothesis.

Results documented that resilience not only mediated the negative effect of avoidant coping strategy and complicated grief but also moderated the positive effect of avoidant coping strategy and posttraumatic growth. The consequence showed that we can effectively reduce the degree of complicated grief and increase posttraumatic growth if the intervention strategies of training psychological resilience are implemented on suicide survivors.

Due to the limitation of the research design, we hope that there are some longitudinal studies aimed at the long-term effect of resilience among suicide survivors in the future.

 

Keywords
suicide survivors complicated grief posttraumatic growth resilience avoidant coping strategy