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Young adults' reconciliation with their mournimg after parental loss between the ages of 11 and 18

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dc.contributor Graduate Program in Psychology.
dc.contributor.advisor Fişek, Güler Okman.
dc.contributor.author Coşkun, Duygu.
dc.date.accessioned 2023-03-16T12:18:55Z
dc.date.available 2023-03-16T12:18:55Z
dc.date.issued 2009.
dc.identifier.other PSY 2009 C67
dc.identifier.uri http://digitalarchive.boun.edu.tr/handle/123456789/16951
dc.description.abstract This study aimed to examine a) the effects of adherence to mourning rituals, grief reactions, social environment, and coping strategies on adjustment to parental loss and b) to investigate the effects of gender, age of loss, sex of the lost parent and previous loss on young adults‟ adaptation to their lives. 25 female and 14 male native Turkish speaker undergraduate Boğaziçi University students participated in the study. The participants‟ attendance in grief rituals and environmental support after parental loss were measured by the Mourning Rituals Questionnaire (MRQ) and the Social Support Availability and Satisfaction Scale (SSASS), respectively. The Grief Reactions Scale (GRS) was used to evaluate grief responses, whereas the Coping with Parental Loss Scale (CPLS) investigated each participant‟s coping strategies during the mourning process. In order to assess each participant‟s adaptation to their new life, the Adjustment to Parental Loss Scale (APLS) was used. The results suggest that grief reactions have a negative effect on eventual adjustment to parental loss. According to the findings, it appears that losing a mother has a worse effect than losing a father; similarly losing a parent at a younger age has a worse effect in terms of adjustment to parental loss. However, no gender effects on young adults‟ adaptation after parental loss were found.|Keywords: mourning, grief, young adults, adolescent bereavement, parental loss.
dc.format.extent 30cm.
dc.publisher Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2009.
dc.relation Includes appendices.
dc.relation Includes appendices.
dc.subject.lcsh Parental grief.
dc.subject.lcsh Bereavement -- Psychological aspects.
dc.subject.lcsh Bereavement in youth.
dc.title Young adults' reconciliation with their mournimg after parental loss between the ages of 11 and 18
dc.format.pages viii, 66 leaves;


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