2017-03-01
Psychometric Properties of the Grief Cognitions Questionnaire for Children (GCQ-C)
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Journal of Rational - Emotive and Cognitive - Behavior Therapy , Volume 35 - Issue 1 p. 60- 77
Negative thinking is seen as an important mediating factor in the development of prolonged grief disorder (PGD), a syndrome encompassing debilitating symptoms of grief. No measure of specific grief related cognitions is available yet. Based on an adult measure of negative thinking in adults we developed a questionnaire for children, the Grief Cognitions Questionnaire for Children (GCQ-C). This study investigated several psychometric properties of the GCQ-C. Both reliability and validity were investigated in this study, in which hundred fifty-one children and adolescents (aged 8–18 years) participated. Findings showed that items of the GCQ-C represented one underlying dimension. Furthermore, the internal consistency and temporal stability were found to be adequate. Third, the findings supported the concurrent validity (e.g., significant positive correlations with self-report indices of PGD, depression and posttraumatic stress disorder), convergent and divergent validity of the GCQ-C. This study provides further evidence for the importance of negative thinking in PGD in children and adolescents.
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| Journal of Rational - Emotive and Cognitive - Behavior Therapy | |
| Organisation | Department of Pedagogical Sciences |
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Spuij, M., Prinzie, P., & Boelen, P. (2017). Psychometric Properties of the Grief Cognitions Questionnaire for Children (GCQ-C). Journal of Rational - Emotive and Cognitive - Behavior Therapy, 35(1), 60–77. doi:10.1007/s10942-016-0236-0 |
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