Grief is an unfortunate part of life that almost everyone must endure at some point. Grief is often seen as a traumatic event and individuals have the chance to experience post-traumatic growth as a result of their grief experience. The current study investigates how grief and post-traumatic growth are impacted by emotional, interpersonal, coping, and resilience factors in and sample of 51 undergraduate students. Results indicated that grief was associated with emotion-oriented coping style, and anxiety. Post traumatic growth was associated with anxiety as well, but also with interpersonal and emotional support, and resilience. Our findings suggest that higher levels of anxiety and emotional-based coping was associated with higher levels of grief as well as post-traumatic growth.
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