Peer reviewedERIC Number: EJ357798
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Publication Date: 1987
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Parents' Responses to the Death of Adult Children from Accidents and Cancer: A Comparison.
Shanfield, Stephen B.; And Others
Omega: Journal of Death and Dying, v17 n4 p289-97 1986-87
Compared parents (N=40) whose adult children died in traffic accidents to parents (N=24) whose adult children died of cancer. Cancer parents tended to experience loss less painfully than did accident parents. Differences between groups were explained by older age of children at death and less intense expression of grief. Circumstances of death also determined different responses. (Author/NB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cancer, Death, Emotional Response, Grief, Parent Child Relationship, Parents, Traffic Accidents
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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