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Psychological Adjustment to Spousal Bereavement in Older Adults: A Systematic Review
Research articles examining psychological adjustment to spousal bereavement in older adults (65+) were identified through searches on five electronical databases alongside forward citation and reference list searches. A total of 15 articles involving 686 unique participants were identified. Five cha...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10568953/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34470527 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00302228211043702 |
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description | Research articles examining psychological adjustment to spousal bereavement in older adults (65+) were identified through searches on five electronical databases alongside forward citation and reference list searches. A total of 15 articles involving 686 unique participants were identified. Five characteristics were discovered which can facilitate and inhibit psychological adjustment to spousal bereavement in older adults: the pre-loss spousal relationship, social support, finding meaning and spirituality in loss, the surviving spouse’s personality traits, and death characteristics. These findings support that concepts of ‘meaning making’ and social support should be incorporated into therapeutic work with bereaved spouses to help facilitate psychological adjustment. |
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spelling | pubmed-105689532023-10-13 Psychological Adjustment to Spousal Bereavement in Older Adults: A Systematic Review Purrington, Jack Omega (Westport) Articles Research articles examining psychological adjustment to spousal bereavement in older adults (65+) were identified through searches on five electronical databases alongside forward citation and reference list searches. A total of 15 articles involving 686 unique participants were identified. Five characteristics were discovered which can facilitate and inhibit psychological adjustment to spousal bereavement in older adults: the pre-loss spousal relationship, social support, finding meaning and spirituality in loss, the surviving spouse’s personality traits, and death characteristics. These findings support that concepts of ‘meaning making’ and social support should be incorporated into therapeutic work with bereaved spouses to help facilitate psychological adjustment. SAGE Publications 2021-09-01 2023-11 /pmc/articles/PMC10568953/ /pubmed/34470527 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00302228211043702 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
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title | Psychological Adjustment to Spousal Bereavement in Older Adults: A Systematic Review |
title_full | Psychological Adjustment to Spousal Bereavement in Older Adults: A Systematic Review |
title_fullStr | Psychological Adjustment to Spousal Bereavement in Older Adults: A Systematic Review |
title_full_unstemmed | Psychological Adjustment to Spousal Bereavement in Older Adults: A Systematic Review |
title_short | Psychological Adjustment to Spousal Bereavement in Older Adults: A Systematic Review |
title_sort | psychological adjustment to spousal bereavement in older adults: a systematic review |
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url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10568953/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34470527 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00302228211043702 |
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