Determinants of Outcome following Bereavement
- 1 January 1976
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying
- Vol. 6 (4) , 303-323
- https://doi.org/10.2190/pr0r-glpd-5fpb-422l
Abstract
Sixty-eight widows and widowers were interviewed shortly after bereavement and again a year later. Factors which at the early interviews predicted poor outcome included “low socio-economic status,” “short terminal illness with little warning of impending death,” “multiple life crises (particularly those involving disturbance of marital relationship) and reactions to bereavement of severe distress, yearning, anger or self-reproach.”Keywords
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