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- Title
Bereavement, Gender, and Cyberspace: A Content Analysis of Parents' Memorials to Their Children.
- Authors
Musambira, George W.; Hastings, Sally O.; Hoover, Judith D.
- Abstract
The study investigated how two distinct perspectives apply to the role of gender in parents' memorials on The Compassionate Friends (TCF) electronic bulletin board; cyberspace as merely a mirror of societal gendered patterns of bereavement, and cyberspace as a medium or context in which societal gendered patterns of bereavement are neutralized. Data were evaluated to determine to what extent gender differences exist concerning instrumental versus intuitive styles of bereavement. Analytic categories used in assessing gender differences in parental bereavement style included the following: invoking spirituality, directing messages to the deceased, artistic expressions, and special powers accorded to the deceased. With some exceptions, the findings supported the perspective emphasizing the gender neutralizing aspects of cyberspace parental bereavement for the population studied.
- Subjects
BEREAVEMENT; LOSS (Psychology); ATTITUDES toward death; CYBERSPACE; GENDER; SEX differences (Biology); GENDER role; SPIRITUALITY; SPIRITUAL life
- Publication
Omega: Journal of Death & Dying, 2006, Vol 54, Issue 4, p263
- ISSN
0030-2228
- Publication type
Article