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Widowhood and mortality: a meta-analysis. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2011 While the "widowhood effect" is well known, there is substantial heterogeneity in the magnitude of effects reported in different studies. We conducted a meta-analysis of widowhood and mortality, focusing on longitudinal studies with follow-up from the ...
J Robin Moon +3 more
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Theological and Ethical Reflections on Care for Widows from an African Christian Perspective
E-Journal of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, 2022 This paper is a literature-based study that offers a critical analysis of widowhood from biblical and traditional African socio-cultural perspectives.
Isaac Boaheng, Samuel Boahen
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The Hallucinations of Widowhood [PDF]
BMJ, 1971 227 widows and 66 widowers were interviewed to determine the extent to which they had hallucinatory experiences of their dead spouse. The people interviewed formed 80.7% of all widowed people resident within a defined area, in mid-Wales, and 94.2% of those suitable, through the absence of incapacitating illness, for interview.Almost half the people ...
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The labor force participation of Indian women before and after widowhood
Demographic Research, 2020 Background: Due to its young age structure and taboos on widow remarriage, India has a large and relatively young female widow population. Many of India's widows are in prime working ages.
Megan Reed
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BMC Public Health, 2016 Background Previous research has demonstrated health benefits of marriage and the potential for worse outcomes during widowhood in some populations. However, few studies have assessed the relevance of widowhood and widowhood duration to a variety of ...
Jessica M. Perkins +7 more
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Widowed persons in Serbia: Change in number and general demographic characteristics (1980-2016) [PDF]
Stanovništvo, 2018 Widowed persons represent a vulnerable population group, especially because the loss of a spouse is usually a part of old people’s experience. In old age, people are typically faced with multiple constraints, related to health, financial resources ...
Penev Goran, Stanković Biljana
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Acta PsychologicaThe experience of widowhood and that of living alone are significant life events that are strongly associated with depressive symptoms in older adults.
Junyue Yue, Myeong-Sook Yoon
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The process of mourning for Eswatini widowers: A pastoral concern
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2021 Eswatini custom and church traditions indirectly and directly affect the way widowers handle their mourning period, after the demise of their better halves.
Dalcy Dlamini, Maake J. Masango
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Repartnering After Widowhood [PDF]
The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 2014 This study estimates the sex-specific prevalence of repartnering after widowhood. The main objective is to examine the competing choice between nonmarital cohabitation and remarriage as well as repartnering differentials.The study uses data from the 2007 Canadian General Social Survey and life table methods to illustrate gender and regional differences
Zheng Wu +2 more
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SSM - Mental HealthBackground: Widows in sub-Saharan Africa experience stigma linked to their social identity of widowhood. Despite the known significant impacts of stigma on health and wellbeing, widowhood stigma is less conceptualized and studied and its effects on ...
Jackline A. Odhiambo +8 more
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