The Pandemic Grief Scale and Pandemic Grief Risk Factors. Spanish Adaptation, Validation, and Identification of Prolonged Grief Disorder Redondo-Armenteros, Andrea Fernández-Alcántara, Manuel Pérez-Marfil, María Nieves Cabañero-Martínez, María José Neimeyer, Robert A. Cruz-Quintana, Francisco COVID-19 bereavement pandemic grief bereavement risk factors prolonged grief disorder assessment Psychometrics properties This work was supported by the Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (MICIU/AEI/10.13039/501100011033) under Grant PID2020-119063RB-I00 within the 2020 Proyectos I+D+I programme. ARA is supported by the Ministerio de Universidades under Grant (FPU21/01029) from the Formación de Profesorado Universitario programme. Introduction: The unique circumstances surrounding grief experienced during the pandemic created a need to develop specific tools to assess these processes. Two instruments have been developed and validated in English: the Pandemic Grief Scale (PGS) and the Pandemic Grief Risk Factors (PGRF). Aim: The present study validated the Spanish versions of both scales and explored their relation to Prolonged Grief Disorder symptomatology in the months following the attenuation of the pandemic in the West. Method: The sample consisted of 276 Spanish bereaved people who had lost a loved one during the COVID-19 pandemic. Other instruments, including the PG-13, were used alongside the PGS and PGRF to establish diagnostic criteria. The Support Needs Questionnaire and SCL-90-R were also employed to provide evidence of convergent and divergent validity. Results: Both scales had a unifactorial structure and adequate reliability indices (α = .85–.86). A cutoff point of 7 on the PGS identified mourners with prolonged grief disorder with high sensitivity and specificity. Further validity analyses showed positive correlations of dysfunctional grief with psychopathological variables. Conclusion: The Spanish versions of the PGS and PGRF demonstrate adequate psychometric properties for assessing the longer-term complications of COVID-19 loss. 2025-06-30T09:45:37Z 2025-06-30T09:45:37Z 2025-04-29 journal article A. Redondo-Armenteros, M. Fernández-Alcántara, M. N. Pérez-Marfil, M. J. Cabañero-Martínez, R. A. Neimeyer, and F. Cruz-Quintana, “The Pandemic Grief Scale and Pandemic Grief Risk Factors: Spanish Adaptation, Validation, and Identification of Prolonged Grief Disorder,” European Journal of Psychology Open, vol. 0, no. 0, Apr. 2025, [DOI: 10.1024/2673-8627/a000082] https://hdl.handle.net/10481/104965 10.1024/2673-8627/a000082 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ open access Atribución 4.0 Internacional Hogrefe Verlag GmbH & Co. KG