Couple’s Relationship After the Death of a Child: A Systematic Review

Albuquerque, Sara; Pereira, Marco; Narciso, Isabel

doi:10.1007/s10826-015-0219-2

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“…Because of the sensitive nature of the theme, careful attention was given to strategies for minimizing parents' distress (for a review on ethical considerations with bereaved parents' research, see Albuquerque, Pereira, & Narciso, 2016). All parents were interviewed individually at a place of their choice (which was most often their homes), and the interviews were conducted by the first author, a researcher with clinical experience in bereavement.…”

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“…Grounded theory seeks to construct theory through an inductive process of data collection, in which new information is created from the data instead of testing theory-derived hypotheses (Gibbs, 2008). CGT adopts novel characteristics such as the importance given to context and the role of the researcher in the construction of the theory (reflexivity) and the existence of previous knowledge on the subject (for a review, see Albuquerque et al, 2016).…”

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“…First, we underline the sampling bias, a limitation commonly found in grief literature (for reviews see Albuquerque et al, 2016;Oliver, 1999), which resulted from the self-selection of parents and that may have excluded severely maritally distressed parents.…”

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Parents’ Positive Interpersonal Coping After a Child’s Death

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Despite the challenging context of grieving for the death of a child, evidence shows that it is possible for parents to manage and preserve their relationship. The aim of this study was to examine parents' perceptions of positive interpersonal coping processes that helped their relationship after the death of their child. Individual semistructured interviews with 17 bereaved maritally committed parents were conducted. The interview guide included questions covering themes such as parents' coping together, relationship strengths and mutual support.Data were analyzed through constructivist grounded theory methods. Three main themes were identified: search for meaning (reframing of partners' different coping processes and the changes/difficulties in the relationship, and development of shared beliefs); communication with the partner (direct and indirect feedback, and mutual learning); and care-in-relation (caring for the partner and the relationship). Dyad-level interventions should aim at promoting mutual empathy, development of shared appraisals, and the identification and consideration of each other's boundaries.

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“…This traumatic event can influence health-related behaviors, such as diet, smoking, or alcohol consumption [6]. It can also affect the couple dynamics between parents [2] and increase the risk of intimate partner violence [33]. Parental bereavement generally affects mothers more than fathers, perhaps as a result of gendered coping mechanisms or because mothers develop stronger emotional ties with their children [11,26,15,34].…”

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Women's experience of child death over the life course: A global demographic perspective

Alburez-Gutiérrez¹,

Kolk²,

Zagheni³

2019

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Recent population change has seen increases in life expectancy, reductions in family size, and postponement of fertility to older ages. We analyze the effect of these dynamics on the experience of child death over the life course for the 1950-1999 annual birth cohorts of women around the world. The paper draws on age-specific fertility and mortality rates from the UN World Population Prospects 2019 (estimates and projections) to assess trends in the frequency and timing of child death using formal demographic methods. We discuss the variation in woman's exposure to offspring mortality according to the demographic regimes prevailing in different world regions. Our analyses predict a global reduction in the overall frequency of child death over a woman's life course. We expect the largest improvements in regions of the Global South where child death is still common for women. In spite of persisting regional inequalities, we show evidence of a global convergence towards a future where the death of a child will become ever more infrequent for women. We anticipate that global population aging will be accompanied by an aging of generational relationships where life events such as the death of a child are experienced at older ages. Given these results, it seems likely that `child death' will increasingly come to mean the death of an adult child for younger generations of women.

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“…Traa et al (2015) also showed the importance of adequate dyadic coping efforts, such as stress communication, supportive behaviors, and positive dyadic coping, for the maintenance and improvement of relationship functioning in couples coping with cancer. Other reviews have shown that traumatic events, such as the loss of a child (Albuquerque et al, 2015), terror attacks (Gilber et al, 2011) and natural catastrophes like earthquakes (Marshall et al, 2017), can bring some couples closer while others demonstrate significant adjustment problems that are linked to conflict and may result in divorce (e.g., Badr and Acitelli, 2017). Adaptive processes mediate the effects of personal characteristics and stressful events on marital adjustment.…”

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The Predictive Value of Dyadic Coping in the Explanation of PTSD Symptoms and Subjective Well-Being of Work Accident Victims

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Objective: Work accidents may be considered dyadic stressors in so far as they not only affect the worker, but also the couple’s relationship. Dyadic coping, as the process by which couples manage the stress experienced by each partner, can strengthen individual health and well-being as well as couple relationship functioning. Accidents at work have progressively been studied from a perspective that focuses on their negative effects on PTSS, anxiety, and depression. However, to a large extent, the dyadic coping processes and results following a work accident are still to be identified and clarified. In this study, we examined the predictive value of dyadic coping in the explanation of PTSS and subjective well-being of work accident victims.Method: This study comprised a sample of 62 individuals involved in work accidents within the last 24 months (61.3% males) and their partners (N = 124; M = 46.25 years, SD = 11.18). All participants responded to the Dyadic Coping Inventory and the work accident victims also answered the PTSD Checklist – Civilian (PCL-C) and the Mental Health Continuum – Short Form (MHC-SF). Two hierarchical multiple regression analyses were performed using two different variable set models: Model 1 comprised the control variables gender and age, and Model 2 included the workers’ and the partners’ dyadic coping variables.Results: Results showed that dyadic coping reported by both workers and their respective partners (Model 2) was a significant predictor of workers’ PTSS (p < 0.01) and subjective well-being (p < 0.001), explaining 31.2% of the variance in PCL-C and 68.7% in MHC-SF results. More specifically, the partners’ supportive dyadic coping (by the self) and delegated dyadic coping (by the partner) were significant predictors of the workers’ lower PTSS and virtually all the dyadic copying strategies of both the workers’ and their partners’ were significant predictors of the workers’ higher subjective well-being.Conclusion: Dyadic coping of both the workers and their partners predicts the workers’ PTSS and subjective well-being. These findings point to the need to work with couples who have experienced a work accident, with a view to improving the workers’ mental health outcomes.

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Couple’s Relationship After the Death of a Child: A Systematic Review

Abstract: When a child dies, the parents must address the changes in their relationship as well as the way that these changes affect their individual adjustment. These two perspectives are addressed in this systematic

Cited by 41 publications

References 45 publications

Parents’ Positive Interpersonal Coping After a Child’s Death

Parents’ Positive Interpersonal Coping After a Child’s Death

Women's experience of child death over the life course: A global demographic perspective

The Predictive Value of Dyadic Coping in the Explanation of PTSD Symptoms and Subjective Well-Being of Work Accident Victims

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