Abstract
This correlational study involved a student sample. Factor analysis yielded two continuing bond attitude components: the view that maintaining an emotional connection with the memory of the deceased was adaptive (MtA) and the view that such a connection was maladaptive (MtD). MtD correlated positively with attachment insecurity and general attachment vulnerability and negatively with the perception of social support, while MtA correlated positively with the perception of social support. Men scored higher in MtD and lower in MtA than women, and gender moderated the effect of attachment insecurity on MtD and that of previous bereavement experience on both MtD and MtA.
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*p < .05; **p < .01.