Besselink, Evelien (2022) The Effects of a Mixed Educational- and Contact Intervention on Prolonged Grief Stigma: An Experimental Study. Bachelor thesis, Psychology.
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Abstract
Prolonged grief disorder (PGD), a disturbance characterized by severe, persistent and disabling grief response, is recently added to the International Classification of Diseases 11 (ICD-11). Establishing diagnoses for pathological grief may however elicit stigmatizing public reactions (i.e. public stigma). Additionally, while there is evidence that educational- and contact interventions are effective in reducing public stigma of a wide range of disorders, no studies (to our knowledge) have investigated the effects of an intervention on public stigma in PGD yet. We recruited 464 adults from the general population (73% female; mean age: 26.05 years) that were randomly allocated to an educational- and contact intervention condition or a control condition. Subsequently, all participants read a vignette about a person with PGD, and we assessed: 1) characteristics ascribed to a person 2) emotional reactions to the person, and 3) desire for social distance. Our results show that participants in the video intervention group rated a person with PGD as less sensitive and indicated fewer anger-related emotional reactions towards a person with PGD, compared to the group not receiving an intervention. However, we did not find a significant effect for the remaining stigma indicators. In conclusion, public stigma for PGD can be reduced with educational- and contact interventions. Further research is required to investigate long- term effects, and to understand what the active ingredients of the interventions are to optimize effects of interventions to reduce public stigma for PGD.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor) |
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| Supervisor name: | Eisma, M.C. |
| Degree programme: | Psychology |
| Differentiation route: | Clinical Psychology (CP) [Bachelor Psychology] |
| Date Deposited: | 17 Feb 2022 09:40 |
| Last Modified: | 17 Feb 2022 09:40 |
| URI: | http://gmwpublic.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/193 |
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