Assessment of grief-related rumination: validation of the German version of the Utrecht Grief Rumination Scale (UGRS)

Table 5 Candidates and Non-Candidates for complicated grief (time since loss > 12 months)

	CG candidates (n = 61)		Non-CG candidates (n = 27)		t	df	Cohen’s d
	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	t	df	Cohen’s d
UGRS Sum Score	50.50	12.39	33.52	7.41	7.96***	78.239	1.66
Meaning	12.87	2.75	10.04	3.04	4.31***	86	0.98
Relationships	8.72	3.58	5.33	2.09	5.55***	79.266	1.16
Counterfactuals	9.03	4.00	5.78	3.15	4.10***	62.471	0.90
Injustice	9.48	4.42	4.85	2.20	6.54***	84.773	1.32
Reactions	10.40	3.30	7.52	2.89	3.92***	86	0.93

Legend: CG complicated grief. Independent t-tests comparing candidates for complicated grief (ICG > 25) compared to persons below the cut-off (ICG ≤ 25), both with time since loss more than 12 months. If Levene’s test indicated that variances were unequal, the Welch test is reported (and the degrees of freedom adjusted accordingly). *** p < .001

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