 Developments to the communal coping framework include the explanation of the complex nature of the communal coping process (Afifi, Hegelson & Krouse, 2006) and specific personal outcomes (Hegelson, Jakubiak, Vleet, & Zajdel, 2018) following a communal coping process.Lyons et al (1998) introduced the communal coping framework.The first model Lyons et al.