#3340. An evolutionary approach to grief-related rumination: Construction and validation of the Bereavement Analytical Rumination Questionnaire

August 2026publication date
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Experimental and Cognitive Psychology;
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics;
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Abstract:
There has been little evolutionarily oriented empirical research on the intense, repetitive thoughts that often occur during grief. We used evolutionary theory to develop a new instrument for evaluating grief-related rumination by two dimensions: root cause analysis (RCA), the analysis of the cause of the loss; and reinvestment analysis (RIA), the analysis of how to reinvest time and effort in meaningful (presumably fitness enhancing) activities. We administered the BARQ to a sample of people seeking help for grief from non-profit organizations (619 completers) and tested several evolutionary predictions about grief-related rumination. Rumination was higher among antidepressant users, suggesting that rumination is related to depression. The also found a sex or gender difference in grief-related rumination that is consistent with other evidence that women have a greater impact on the survival of close relatives, as well as evidence that women have more to lose with the loss of a close social partner.
Keywords:
Antidepressants; Bereavement; Death of child; Grief; Rumination; Traumatic death

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