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Mothers continuing bonds and ambivalence to personal mortality after the death of their child - An interpretative phenomenological analysis
| العنوان: | Mothers continuing bonds and ambivalence to personal mortality after the death of their child - An interpretative phenomenological analysis |
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| المؤلفون: | Harper, Mairi, O'Connor, Rory, Dickson, Adele, O'Carroll, Ronan |
| المساهمون: | HS UG Regulated - Stirling - LEGACY, Psychology, orcid:0000-0003-2664-064X, orcid:0000-0002-5130-291X |
| بيانات النشر: | Taylor and Francis |
| سنة النشر: | 2011 |
| المجموعة: | University of Stirling: Stirling Digital Research Repository |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | bereavement, parents, coping, continuing bonds, suicidal ideation |
| الوصف: | The main objective of this study was to identify how bereaved mothers describe their coping strategies in their own words. The literature on parental bereavement is sparse, and the present study aims to add to existing knowledge by eliciting the mothers' experiences covering a wide range of child ages including infants, younger children and adults. Semi-structured interviews were held with 13 bereaved mothers in the UK. Causes of death include accident, illness and suicide. The methodological approach was interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA). This article reports two inter-related recurrent themes: (1) Continuing the bond with the deceased child and (2) Ambivalence to personal mortality. Participants reported that the relationship with their child was continued in a variety of ways, from tending to the grave and the child's remains, through linking objects or by establishing a symbolic representation of the child within their daily lives. All mothers talked openly about their own mortality, either demonstrating ambivalence about their own death, or expressing clear suicidal ideation. Death was seen as a release from living with the pain of loss. The presence of surviving siblings appeared to moderate suicidal ideation, but mothers expressed concerns about their ability to care adequately for other family members during times of intense grief. |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article in journal/newspaper |
| وصف الملف: | application/pdf |
| اللغة: | English |
| Relation: | Harper M, O'Connor R, Dickson A & O'Carroll R (2011) Mothers continuing bonds and ambivalence to personal mortality after the death of their child - An interpretative phenomenological analysis. Psychology, Health and Medicine, 16 (2), pp. 203-214. https://doi.org/10.1080/13548506.2010.532558; http://hdl.handle.net/1893/9204; WOS:000287314500007; 2-s2.0-79951795692; 766415; http://dspace.stir.ac.uk/bitstream/1893/9204/1/ocarroll_PHM_2011.pdf |
| DOI: | 10.1080/13548506.2010.532558 |
| الاتاحة: | http://hdl.handle.net/1893/9204 https://doi.org/10.1080/13548506.2010.532558 http://dspace.stir.ac.uk/bitstream/1893/9204/1/ocarroll_PHM_2011.pdf |
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| رقم الانضمام: | edsbas.57A1B62 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | BASE |
| DOI: | 10.1080/13548506.2010.532558 |
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