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Psychological Sense of Community, Perceived Social Support, and Grief Experiences among Bereaved College Students
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McNally, Rachel D. S.; Winterowd, Carrie L.; Farra, Aisha – College Student Journal, 2021
The purpose of the present study was to explore significant predictors of current and past grief among bereaved college students, including time since the death loss (number of months), level of emotional closeness college students felt toward their deceased loved ones, their psychological sense of community to college, and their perceived social…
Descriptors: Grief, Death, Interpersonal Relationship, Social Support Groups
Predictors of Complicated Grief after a Natural Disaster: A Population Study Two Years after the 2004 South-East Asian Tsunami
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Kristensen, Pal; Weisaeth, Lars; Heir, Trond – Death Studies, 2010
The authors examined predictors of complicated grief (CG) in Norwegians 2 years after bereavement in the 2004 South-East Asian tsunami. A cross-sectional postal survey retrospectively covering disaster experiences and assessing CG according to the Inventory of Complicated Grief yielded 130 respondents (35 directly disaster-exposed and 95 not…
Descriptors: Grief, Natural Disasters, Predictor Variables, Emotional Response
The Good Funeral: Toward an Understanding of Funeral Participation and Satisfaction
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O'Rourke, T.; Spitzberg, Brian H.; Hannawa, Annegret F. – Death Studies, 2011
This study posits a model of funeral satisfaction in which religiosity predicts general funeral attitudes, which predict levels and types of funeral participation, mediating the relationship between attitudes and satisfaction in a particular bereavement context. Over a thousand respondents rated their attitudes toward funerals in general and…
Descriptors: Grief, Learning Processes, Coping, Stress Management
The Study of Personal Constructs of Death and Fear of Death among Taiwanese Adolescents
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Yang, Shu Ching; Chen, Shih-Fen – Death Studies, 2009
This study administered an open-ended questionnaire about death and the Multidimensional Fear of Death Scale (MODS) to explore the relationships between personal constructs about death and fears of death among Taiwanese adolescents. The sample included 329 adolescents in junior and senior high school grades 7 to 12. A coding manual was used to…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Content Analysis, Fear, Death
Race and Type of Death as Factors in the Experience of Bereavement.
Prouty, Beth N.; Mauger, Paul A. – 1982
Recent research suggests that circumstances surrounding the death of a loved one and the characteristics of the survivor may affect the grief reaction. To investigate the effect of race and type of death (sudden or anticipated) on the bereavement experience, a true-false questionnaire and the Grief Experience Inventory were administered to 74…
Descriptors: Affective Measures, Black Attitudes, Coping, Death
SIDS Family Adjustment Scale: A Method of Assessing Family Adjustment to Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.
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May, Harold J.; Breme, Frederick J. – Omega: Journal of Death and Dying, 1982
Discusses Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) and the family's resultant grief process. Explores SIDS as a family crisis, and by identifying the psychological factors or tasks pertinent to family adjustment, proposes a SIDS Family Adjustment Scale which assists in recognizing adaptive and maladaptive grief responses. (Author)
Descriptors: Counseling Techniques, Crisis Intervention, Death, Emotional Adjustment