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Widowhood, widowhood duration, and loneliness among older adults in China
Social Science and Medicine, 2021Widowhood is a distressful life event that is associated with loneliness in older adults. However, widowhood is not a binary event, and little is known about the role of widowhood duration in loneliness and about the relationship between widowhood duration and loneliness in different age and sex groups.
Fang Yang, Danan Gu
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Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 1985
Widowed residents of two nursing homes who were oriented to person, time, and place were interviewed to determine the extent to which they had hallucinatory experiences of their deceased spouse. Fifty‐two interviews were completed with 46 widows and six widowers. Results are reported for the widows.
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Widowed residents of two nursing homes who were oriented to person, time, and place were interviewed to determine the extent to which they had hallucinatory experiences of their deceased spouse. Fifty‐two interviews were completed with 46 widows and six widowers. Results are reported for the widows.
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British Journal of Psychiatry, 1972
A group of 109 randomly selected widows and widowers, average age 61, were evaluated one month after the deaths of their spouses. Thirty-five per cent of them had a collection of depressive symptoms similar to those common in psychiatric depressed patients.
P J, Clayton, J A, Halikas, W L, Maurice
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A group of 109 randomly selected widows and widowers, average age 61, were evaluated one month after the deaths of their spouses. Thirty-five per cent of them had a collection of depressive symptoms similar to those common in psychiatric depressed patients.
P J, Clayton, J A, Halikas, W L, Maurice
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2019
Abstract Chapter 5 reveals that pilots’ salaries greatly improved their families’ livelihoods. Following the death of a pilot, however, his widow and children confronted significant challenges. Widows revealed when they were young women, corrupt military officers and in-laws often denied them full death benefits.
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Abstract Chapter 5 reveals that pilots’ salaries greatly improved their families’ livelihoods. Following the death of a pilot, however, his widow and children confronted significant challenges. Widows revealed when they were young women, corrupt military officers and in-laws often denied them full death benefits.
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Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology, 1987
This article examines an important aspect of the religious world of a group of elderly, pious, Kurdish Jewish women in Jerusalem. While previous scholars have stressed the connection between menopause (with the resultant loss in fertility and so menstrual pollution) and the increased religious inolvement of old women, I argue that the broadening of the
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This article examines an important aspect of the religious world of a group of elderly, pious, Kurdish Jewish women in Jerusalem. While previous scholars have stressed the connection between menopause (with the resultant loss in fertility and so menstrual pollution) and the increased religious inolvement of old women, I argue that the broadening of the
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Anticipatory Grief and Widowhood
British Journal of Psychiatry, 1973Lindemann (6) first used the term ‘anticipatory grief’. It referred to the separation of two people with one anticipating the death of the other and preparing for it to such an extent that on the return of the other there is rejection rather than happy acceptance.
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Grief in Widowhood and Divorce
Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 1987This article describes the development of scales to assess grief and anger in widowhood and divorce. Widows have significantly higher grief scores than do divorcees, but the two groups do not differ in the degree of anger they report. Grief and anger scores are higher for widows and divorcees with social and psychological vulnerabilities and ...
G C, Kitson, S J, Zyzanski
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Journal of Gerontology, 1991
Data from a national sample of widows of all ages were used to examine links between poverty and widowhood. We found that widowhood drops living standards by 18 percent, on average, and pushes 10 percent of women whose incomes were above the poverty line prior to widowhood into poverty after it.
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Data from a national sample of widows of all ages were used to examine links between poverty and widowhood. We found that widowhood drops living standards by 18 percent, on average, and pushes 10 percent of women whose incomes were above the poverty line prior to widowhood into poverty after it.
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Emotional Problems and Widowhood
Journal of Gerontology, 1988In 1979, 1,144 married women between the ages of 65 and 75 were interviewed about their health and social support networks. During the next two-and-a-half years, 150 of them were widowed; 128 were interviewed six months after bereavement. Among the 115 women who had denied needing help for an emotional problem at the initial interview, 25 admitted the ...
E L, Goldberg +2 more
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2012
The history of widows is part of the history of women. It was also a distinctive phase of female experience in the Renaissance and Reformation periods, and the related late medieval and early modern periods. Widowhood was both the time of the greatest potential autonomy for women and a time of limits on this autonomy, of public suspicion, and often of ...
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The history of widows is part of the history of women. It was also a distinctive phase of female experience in the Renaissance and Reformation periods, and the related late medieval and early modern periods. Widowhood was both the time of the greatest potential autonomy for women and a time of limits on this autonomy, of public suspicion, and often of ...
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