Resilience and Social Support as Predictors of Perinatal Grief in Mexican Women: Explanatory Model

Resilience and social support enable the possible solution of perinatal bereavement. With the objective to determine the psychometric indexes of the Mexican Scale of Resilience (RESI-M) in women with perinatal loss and to establish the relation between resilience and social support within bereavement in an explanatory model, a cross-sectional study with 295 Mexican women in mourning was performed; they answered the RESI-M, the Scale of Network Quality and the Scale of Perinatal Grief. The psychometric indexes of the RESI-M were satisfactory, and the AFC showed acceptable levels of adjustment. The model explained 12% of the variance of active grief, with adequate adjustment indices; two resilient factors were significant predictors; support from family and friends, religious practice, and number of children predicted resilience. The role of these variables in the anticipation of complicated grief and the usefulness of RESI-M in clinical and research are discussed.