Widowhood in the Israeli Arab Muslim Society

Datos Bibliográficos

ID13628426
AutoresHend Yasien-Esmael (University of Haifa), Simon Shimshon Rubin (0000-0001-8410-9430, University of Haifa), Yohanan Eshel (0000-0001-6707-7297, University of Haifa, autor de correspondencia)
Año2017
Volumen80
Número3
Páginas420-439
Fecha de publicación2017-10-26
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaOMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0030-2228 • E-ISSN: 1541-3764
EditorialSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0030222817737229
PMID29073821
OpenAlexW2766503168
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias citadas42

Adjustment of Israeli Arab Muslim widows to the traumatic loss of their husbands was examined by comparing their reported ways of coping with those of married women of their community by means of the Two-Track-Bereavement Model. Participants included 93 widows and 86 comparable married women who were mostly middle aged and of middle class. We hypothesized that widows will express concurrently greater suffering and higher resilience to adverse life events compared with married women. It was hypothesized further that positive and close relations to a deceased husband will be reported by Arab widows as well as Arab married women. However, positive relationships of married women will correlate with their own coping supporting attributes, whereas positive relations of widows to their deceased husband will not be associated with their individual characteristics. Results indicated a fourfold factor structure of the bereavement and coping scale which differed from those obtained by Israeli Jewish women and generally supported these hypotheses. It appears that traumatic loss of a husband may enhance widows' resilience

Coping (psychology · Geography · Judaism · Psychological resilience · Sociology · Clinical Psychology · Demography · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health · Homelessness and Social Issues · Migration, Health and Trauma · Psychology · Social Psychology