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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Meaning reconstruction"”.
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College students' suicidal ideation: Testing the predictions of the existential - constructivist theory of suicide
… distress and the inability to reconstruct meaning from adverse life events contribute to suicidal ideation. ECTS includes both interpersonal and intrapersonal drivers of suicidal ideation, and for this reason, may better explain suicidal ideation in college students than existing …
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The Experience of Men After Miscarriage
… and women often view miscarriage as a real and meaningful loss (Johnson & Puddifoot, 1996; McCreight, 2004). The vast majority of research focused on the experience of miscarriage has emphasized the feelings, thoughts, and behaviors of women (Conway & Russell, 2000; McCreight, 2004). However, …
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From rupture to reconstruction : The lived experience of grief among family members bereaved by drug-related death
… to live in an altered world and reconstructing meaning after a loss. Participants described the sudden rupture of their everyday life, a profound shock, stigma, silence, and a need to defend the deceased. Their grief was formed by social expectations, relationships with others, changes in family …
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The role of religious and spiritual belief and practice in coping and adjusting to spousal bereavement in later life.
… capital, that in different ways were related to meaning reconstruction. As religious ritual seemed important yet is under researched, Study 3 aimed to develop the first scale of its kind to measure religious ritual. A 35-item scale was developed, named the Importance of Religious Ritual Scale, …
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Intrapersonal and interpersonal meaning-making: The process of identity reconstruction after the loss of a spouse
… both identity theory (Stryker, 1980) and the meaning reconstruction model of grief (Neimeyer, 2001a, 2001b), this projected explored the role of (a) aspects of grief, (b) sense-making and benefit-finding, (c) communication, and (d) identity fractures and role conflicts within identity …
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Presentation, Structure, and Storytelling of Perinatal Loss Memory Boxes
… boxes contain items that hold significance and meaning for the family, often including objects that have been in physical contact with the infant. However, the style and presentation of memory boxes—ranging from decorative containers to simple bags— remain inconsistent and unexamined within the …
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The Search for Meaning: What Do the Narratives of Grieving Individuals Reveal?
… one of them is myself. In particular, the meanings assigned to the losses and how those meanings impacted the grieving process were explored by listening to in-depth narratives of the participants’ experiences of loss and grief. A narrative methodology was used, based on a constructivist …