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

Table 6 Candidates and Non-Candidates for complicated grief (time since loss > 6 months)

	CG candidates (n = 89)		Non-CG candidates (n = 32)		t	df	Cohen’s d
	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	t	df	Cohen’s d
UGRS Sum Score	51.34	11.82	34.88	8.45	8.44***	76.566	1.60
Meaning	13.18	2.47	10.25	2.92	5.50***	120	1.09
Relationships	8.93	3.31	5.56	2.49	5.98***	72.635	1.15
Counterfactuals	9.01	3.88	5.84	3.34	4.41***	62.837	0.87
Injustice	9.72	4.39	5.66	3.17	5.60***	75.562	1.06
Reactions	10.51	3.13	7.56	2.77	4.70***	119	1.00

Legend: CG Complicated grief. Independent t-test comparing candidates for complicated grief (ICG > 25) to persons below the cut-off (ICG ≤ 25), both with time since loss more than 6 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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