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Abstract
As traditional Koreans tend to avoid talking about death, this study purposed to help university students overcome the grief caused by death by using their inner strength through logotherapy. This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of a sudden bereavement programme using a randomized controlled pretest-posttest experimental design. Participants were 48 university students recruited online and randomly assigned to either the experimental or the no-treatment control group. The experimental group received six 2-hour logotherapy sessions. Both groups completed pre-, post-, and one-month follow-up tests, which included measures of stress, meaning of life, quality of life, post-traumatic growth, and resilience. Over time, the experimental group experienced significantly lower stress and significantly higher meaning of life, quality of life, post-traumatic growth, and resilience compared to the control group. These results confirm the effectiveness of this logotherapy approach for these Korean students.
期刊介绍：
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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