{"title":"Turkish adaptation and psychometric evaluation of the Grief Impairment Scale.","authors":"Ayşe Aslantürk, Coşkun Arslan","doi":"10.1080/07481187.2025.2452474","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>ABSRACTGrief usually proceeds in a normal course, but sometimes it may become dysfunctional. So psychometrically robust assessments are needed to identify abnormal grief. This study aimed to adapt the Grief Impairment Scale to Turkish and explore its psychometric properties with a sample of 364 bereaved adults. The results of the confirmatory factor analysis supported the unidimensional factor structure of the 5-item GIS. The Turkish version of the GIS demonstrated satisfactory internal consistency (<i>α= .88, ω= .88</i>). The convergent validity analysis revealed a positive correlation between the GIS and traumatic grief (<i>r</i> = .74, <i>p</i> < .001), depression (<i>r</i> = .65, <i>p</i> < .001), anxiety (<i>r</i> = .57, <i>p</i> < .001), and stress (<i>r</i> = .63, <i>p</i> < .001) with strong effect sizes. The study results showed that the GIS is an effective tool for measuring grief-related functional impairment in the Turkish cultural context following the loss of a loved one.</p>","PeriodicalId":11041,"journal":{"name":"Death Studies","volume":" ","pages":"1-8"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1000,"publicationDate":"2025-01-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Death Studies","FirstCategoryId":"3","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07481187.2025.2452474","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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ABSRACTGrief usually proceeds in a normal course, but sometimes it may become dysfunctional. So psychometrically robust assessments are needed to identify abnormal grief. This study aimed to adapt the Grief Impairment Scale to Turkish and explore its psychometric properties with a sample of 364 bereaved adults. The results of the confirmatory factor analysis supported the unidimensional factor structure of the 5-item GIS. The Turkish version of the GIS demonstrated satisfactory internal consistency (α= .88, ω= .88). The convergent validity analysis revealed a positive correlation between the GIS and traumatic grief (r = .74, p < .001), depression (r = .65, p < .001), anxiety (r = .57, p < .001), and stress (r = .63, p < .001) with strong effect sizes. The study results showed that the GIS is an effective tool for measuring grief-related functional impairment in the Turkish cultural context following the loss of a loved one.
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Now published ten times each year, this acclaimed journal provides refereed papers on significant research, scholarship, and practical approaches in the fast growing areas of bereavement and loss, grief therapy, death attitudes, suicide, and death education. It provides an international interdisciplinary forum in which a variety of professionals share results of research and practice, with the aim of better understanding the human encounter with death and assisting those who work with the dying and their families.
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