In contact with grief: affectionate touch and intimacy in bereaved parents

Turan Deniz Ergun; Asuman Buyukcan Tetik; Anik Debrot; Henk Schut; Margaret Stroebe

In contact with grief: affectionate touch and intimacy in bereaved parents

Turan Deniz Ergun ^[1] ; Asuman Buyukcan-Tetik ^[2] ; Anik Debrot ^[3] ; Henk Schut ^[4] ; Margaret Stroebe ^[4]
1. [1] University of Twente
  
  University of Twente
  
  Países Bajos
2. [2] Sabancı University
  
  Sabancı University
  
  Turquía
3. [3] University of Lausanne
  
  University of Lausanne
  
  Lausana, Suiza
4. [4] Utrecht University
  
  Utrecht University
  
  Países Bajos
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Localización: International journal of clinical and health psychology, ISSN 1697-2600, Vol. 24, Nº. 4, 2024, págs. 261-270
Idioma: inglés
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijchp.2024.100534
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- Although child loss impairs well-being, its impact on behavioral exchanges between bereaved parents remains understudied. We compared bereaved and non-bereaved couples regarding affectionate touch levels, the role of affectionate touch in intimacy, and the association between partners’ affectionate touch similarity and intimacy. Bereaved (228 couples, 27 individuals) and non-bereaved (258 couples, seven individuals) people participated in our seven-day diary study. Although bereaved and non-bereaved men reported equal affectionate touch, bereaved women's affectionate touch was lower than non-bereaved women's. Despite this discrepancy, multilevel analyses revealed that affectionate touch concurrently benefited both genders’ intimacy in bereaved and non-bereaved couples. For bereaved women, touch also contributed to next day's intimacy. We also showed that couples reported higher intimacy if both partners had higher vs. lower affectionate touch. Our findings highlight bereaved and non-bereaved couples’ similarity regarding the relational gains of affectionate touch and the promising function of affectionate touch in coping with loss.
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