| Abstract: | Developed a research model as an analog of reactions to loss and demonstrated the model with 48 college students (aged 18–47 yrs). Each S identified 4 important life goals. After rating these for relatedness, the Ss rated the value or importance of each goal and of everything else in life. They then imagined that their goals became impossible, one at a time, from most to least important. After each imagined loss, they rerated all other goals. After all goals were imagined lost, they rated everything else in life, both immediately and after the imagined passage of 1 yr. The resulting data were consistent with the theory that 1 loss can adversely affect the values of other goals (spread), although containment and compensation or displacement were also found to occur. Spread was found to be bimodally distributed and negatively related to later recovery. (14 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) |
