title: The Mediating Role of Integration of Loss in the Relationship Between Dissociation and Prolonged Grief Disorder.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Findings from the field of trauma have shown that there is a negative relationship between dissociation and integration of loss into the self-narrative. At the same time, an increasing amount of literature on grief has stressed the importance of an integrated self-narrative in the grieving process. Accordingly, the current study examined the possible mediating role played by the extent to which individuals have integrated their loss into their self-narrative in the relationship between dissociation and symptoms of prolonged grief disorder (PGD).
  
  
  METHODS
  The Prolonged Grief Disorder Scale (PGD-13), the Outcome Questionnaire, the Integration of Stressful Life Experiences Scale, the Dissociative Experiences Scale, and a sociodemographic questionnaire were administered to 66 individuals who had lost a loved one.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The hypothesized mediation model of integration was confirmed.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The effect of people's dissociative tendencies on their PGD symptoms seems to occur via the impairment of their ability to integrate the memory of their loss into their general autobiographical memory. Empirical and clinical implications are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Bar-Ilan University, Department of Psychology, Ramat-Gan, Israel.
authors.forename: Ilanit
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Hasson-Ohayon
authors.affiliation: Bar-Ilan University, Department of Psychology, Ramat-Gan, Israel.
authors.forename: Tuvia
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Peri
authors.affiliation: Bar-Ilan University, Department of Psychology, Ramat-Gan, Israel.
authors.forename: Itai
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Rotschild
authors.affiliation: Bar-Ilan University, Department of Psychology, Ramat-Gan, Israel.
authors.forename: Rivka
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Tuval-Mashiach
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D004213:Dissociative Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006117:Grief; D006801:Humans; D008016:Life Change Events; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D000067073:Psychological Trauma / Q000523:psychology*; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000523:psychology*; D055815:Young Adult