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| Men and women and their responses in spousal bereavement | | Author(s) | David G Quigley, Mona S Schatz |
| Journal title | The Hospice Journal, vol 14, no 2, 1999 |
| Pages | pp 65-78 |
| Source | Haworth Document Delivery Center, The Haworth Press Inc., 10 Alice Street, Binghamton, NY 13904-1580, USA. |
| Keywords | Bereavement ; Adjustment ; Older men ; Older women ; Spouses ; Social surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | The Grief Experience Inventory (GEI) was used to examine grief responses among men and women who experienced the loss of their spouse at a Colorado hospice during 1995. 118 questionnaires were sent out; 43 people responded (36.5%), comprising 29 women and 14 men (mean age 62.95 years). The findings document a broad range of emotional responses to grief among men and women. Elements measured included despair, anger/hostility, guilt, social isolation, loss of control, rumination, depersonalisation, somatisation, and death anxiety. No significant differences were found, with the exception of despair and somatisation which were rated higher by women. These findings appear to differ from the perceptions of bereavement counsellors, who often identify behavioural differences in how men and women cope with their loss experience. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-990723224 A |
| Classmark | DW: DR: BC: BD: SN: 3F: 7T |
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