{"title":"Companion animal bereavement: A psychometric evaluation of the German Pet Bereavement Questionnaire.","authors":"Bettina K Doering, Melissa Hunt, Antonia Barke","doi":"10.1080/07481187.2025.2556116","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The Pet Bereavement Questionnaire (PBQ) assesses grief after the death of a companion animal. A German translation is lacking. Participants (N = 301, aged 18-63 years, 77% women) responded to an online survey containing the German version of the PBQ, further measures of grief severity, symptoms of depression and attachment to animals. A confirmatory factor analysis failed to replicate the original three-factor structure. An exploratory factor analysis yielded a two-factor structure with the subscales separation distress and (self-)blame. Internal consistencies were good to excellent. The PBQ correlated stronger with symptoms of grief than with symptoms of depression. Attachment to animals was positively associated with grief intensity, especially when the relationship to the deceased animal was a substitute for human relationships. The results suggest that the German version of the PBQ is reliable and valid. Its factor structure seems to vary with cultural and other sample characteristics, highlighting the need for future research.</p>","PeriodicalId":11041,"journal":{"name":"Death Studies","volume":" ","pages":"1-9"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8000,"publicationDate":"2025-09-09","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/10.1080/07481187.2025.2556116","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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The Pet Bereavement Questionnaire (PBQ) assesses grief after the death of a companion animal. A German translation is lacking. Participants (N = 301, aged 18-63 years, 77% women) responded to an online survey containing the German version of the PBQ, further measures of grief severity, symptoms of depression and attachment to animals. A confirmatory factor analysis failed to replicate the original three-factor structure. An exploratory factor analysis yielded a two-factor structure with the subscales separation distress and (self-)blame. Internal consistencies were good to excellent. The PBQ correlated stronger with symptoms of grief than with symptoms of depression. Attachment to animals was positively associated with grief intensity, especially when the relationship to the deceased animal was a substitute for human relationships. The results suggest that the German version of the PBQ is reliable and valid. Its factor structure seems to vary with cultural and other sample characteristics, highlighting the need for future research.
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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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