RESEARCH_FILE
Margaret Stroebe
Utrecht University
Known for:The Dual Process Model of coping with bereavement, developed with Henk Schut
Key findings
- 1999
Coping with bereavement involves two kinds of stressors — loss-oriented and restoration-oriented — and a regulatory process of oscillation between confronting and taking breaks from grief. The paper also documents the weak empirical basis of the 'grief work hypothesis'. The Dual Process Model of Coping with Bereavement: Rationale and Description ↗
- 2010
A decade of research on the Dual Process Model supported oscillation as a useful account of adaptive coping, while refining how overload and individual differences fit into the model. The Dual Process Model of Coping with Bereavement: A Decade On ↗