ERIC Number: EJ855680
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2009
Pages: 18
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Stigmatization and Suicide Bereavement
Feigelman, William; Gorman, Bernard S.; Jordan, John R.
Death Studies, v33 n7 p591-608 2009
With survey data collected primarily from peer support group participants, the authors compared stigmatization responses of 462 parents losing children to suicide with 54 other traumatic death survivors and 24 child natural death survivors. Parents who encountered harmful responses and strained relations with family members and non-kin reported heightened grief difficulties. After controlling for time since the death and whether a child's death was traumatic or not, stigmatization continued to be associated with grief difficulties, depression, and suicidal thinking. Suicide survivors reported little differences in stigmatization from other-traumatic-death survivors, a result consistent with other recent studies, suggesting more convergence between these two populations than divergence. (Contains 5 tables.)
Descriptors: Grief, Suicide, Depression (Psychology), Social Bias, Social Attitudes, Surveys, Peer Groups, Social Support Groups, Comparative Analysis, Children, Parents, Psychological Patterns, Family Relationship, Interpersonal Relationship
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Language: English
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