Table 2.

Rates of positive endorsement on dichotomized TBQ items (N=394).

	TBQ Item	Endorsement %
1	Death shouldn’t have happened	77.7%
2	Done something to prevent/make easier	55.6%
3	Someone else could done something to prevent/make easier	52.5%
4	Bad things are uncontrollable	71.1%
5	Grief main tie to loved one	39.6%
6	It isn’t fair that this person died	80.7%
7	Should have expressed your love more	50.3%
8	No space that is safe anymore	26.1%
9	Don’t understand why grief is not getting better	63.5%
10	World filled with unpredictable dangers	47.7%
11	Grieving less would mean you are uncaring, heartless or cold	19.8%
12	Your loved one did not have to die in this way	76.1%
13	Life is unbearable without the person who died	43.4%
14	The only thing that can really help you is to have this person back	32.7%
15	You need a confidant, someone who you could talk to and feel close to	54.6%
16	Other people are tired of your endless grief	28.2%
17	Loved one should have taken better care of her or himself	36.0%
18	Need the person who died to help you cope with stress or problems	35.3%
19	You have nowhere to turn now that your loved one is gone	27.9%
20	Need to guard against forgetting the person who died	22.3%
21	Need to stop grieving so much	48.7%
22	Something is wrong with you because you are grieving so much	38.1%
23	Spending time with other people is hard because can’t share grief	38.3%
24	You can’t stop wishing your loved one was still here	71.1%
25	You need this person so much that they should not have died	46.5%