The Broken Heart
Reality or Myth
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13629182 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Margaret S Stroebe (0000-0002-8468-3317, University of Tübingen, corresponding author), Wolfgang Stroebe (0000-0003-2767-2838, University of Tübingen), Kenneth J Gergen (0000-0002-2388-879X, Swarthmore College), Mary Gergen (0000-0001-7301-7741, Swarthmore College) |
| Year | 1982 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 87-106 |
| Publication date | 1982-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0030-2228 • E-ISSN: 1541-3764 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2190/ecna-pe1c-kcyk-ttj3 |
| OpenAlex | W2093560636 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 16 |
| References cited | 42 |
The hypothesis that the death of a spouse results in high mortality risk for the remaining mate is gaining credence. Further, it is held, this risk recedes with the age of the couple, and is elevated in the male population. The validity of these views is assessed. Direct evidence for this “loss effect” has been derived from cross-sectional and longitudinal research. In the former case, plausible alternative explanations exist for virtually all findings to date. Cross-sectional research thus fails to establish the existence of a loss effect. Although many alternative explanations can be ruled out in longitudinal research, analysis reveals shortcomings in virtually every study. Thus, neither the loss effect nor its associated hypotheses concerning age and gender rest as yet on convincing evidence. At the same time, indirect sources of evidence support the loss effect and indicate the necessity for continued research of expanded scope
Credence · Economics · Population · Positive economics · Rest (music · Scope (computer science · Sociology · Spouse · Statistics · Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion · Demography · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health · Mathematics · Medicine · Psychology · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology · Social Psychology
Gender Differences in Adjustment to Bereavement
The varieties of grief experience
Singles
Environmental Events Preceding Sudden Death in Women
Ceremonial occasions and mortality
Risk of mortality following widowhood
Widowhood-related mortality in Scania, Sweden during the 19th century
The broken heart phenomenon
Long-term effects of losing a spouse or child in a motor vehicle crash
Mortality after bereavement
Research
Identifying Elderly with Coping Difficulties after Two Years of Bereavement
Psychological Resilience Among Widowed Men and Women
Risk Factors in Bereavement Outcome
Are most published social psychological findings false
Mortality after spousal loss
The broken heart
Differential Mortality in the United States
Marriage and Divorce
Factors Affecting the Outcome of Conjugal Bereavement
Mortality of bereavement.
Some epidemiologic aspects of the high mortality rate in the young widowed group
Broken Heart
Psychological Perspectives on Death
Symptomatology and Management of Acute Grief
The social readjustment rating scale
The Affect of Hopelessness and the Development of Cancer
An Epidemiological Review of the Mortality of Bereavement
Control over Death
Relationship between month of birth and month of death in the elderly
Hopelessness as a predictor of cervical cancer
Bereavement and mental illness
Bereavement
Physical attractiveness and marital choice
Statistisches Jahrbuch Für die Bundesrepublik Deutschland 1952
Environmental events predicting death for the elderly
Grief
Sex, Marital Status, and Mortality
| Unique citing works | 16 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,35 |
| Citation span | 1980 - 2016 (37) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 16 |