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Gender Differences in Complicated Grief among the Elderly

Bierhals, Andrew J., Prigerson, Holly G., Fasiczka, Amy, Frank, Ellen, Miller, Mark, Reynolds, Charles F.·1996·OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying
DOI 10.2190/437w-edwj-lmql-0cb9
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The resolution of grief has been frequently posited to progress through stages. Seventy-one widows and twenty-six widowers bereaved from five months to thirty-seven years were studied to determine if their resolution of grief-related symptoms could be mapped onto a stage theory of grief and to examine if men and women follow the same temporal course. An analysis of variance was used to test for differences in complicated grief symptoms over time and between widows and widowers. Widowers bereaved three years or longer were found to have increased bitterness. By contrast, widows who were bereaved three years and beyond were found to have lower levels of complicated grief. These preliminary findings suggest that grief may not resolve in stages and that symptoms of complicated grief may not decline significantly over time. Rather symptoms of complicated grief appear to remain stable at least for the first three years of bereavement for both men and women but, thereafter, among widowers tend to increase and among widows to decrease.

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  • Author gender can introduce bias because author gender impacts the experience of grief and readers' perception of authorial skills.

    “This can introduce bias because (an author's) gender impacts on the experience of grief, the theme of some of our texts (Bierhals et al., 1996;Schwab, 1996), and on readers' perception of authorial skills (Armstrong & McAdams, 2009;Paludi & Strayer, 1985;Weinberg & Kapelner, 2018).”

    From The effects of reading narrative fiction on social and moral cognition (2021) · cites this paper as Bierhals et al., 1996

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Authors
Bierhals, A. J., Prigerson, H. G., Fasiczka, A., Frank, E., Miller, M., & Reynolds, C. F.
Affiliations
Mental Health Clinical Research Center for Late-Life Mood Disorders, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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Venue
OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Published
1996-06
Volume
32
Issue
4
Pages
303-317
ISSN
  • 0030-2228 (ISSN-L)
  • 1541-3764
DOI
10.2190/437w-edwj-lmql-0cb9
OpenAlex
W2088383853
Cited by
46
References
6
Citations by year
2026: 2 · 2024: 1 · 2021: 4 · 2019: 1 · 2017: 1 · 2015: 1 · 2013: 1 · 2012: 1
FWCI
4.22
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license (tdm)
Locations
OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health
  • Social Sciences › Anthropology › Death, Funerary Practices, and Mourning
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion
Keywords
complicated grief, bereavement, widowhood, widows, widowers, gender differences, grief resolution, bitterness, older adults

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