Coping Strategies of Taiwanese Widows Adapting to Loss

Datos Bibliográficos

ID13630679
AutoresMin‐tao Hsu (0000-0001-9377-7836, Kaohsiung Medical University, autor de correspondencia), Min-Tao Hsu (Kaohsiung Medical College, Taiwan), David L Kahn (The University of Texas at Austin), David Kahn (0000-0002-2859-7801, The University of Texas at Austin)
Año1999
Volumen38
Número4
Páginas269-288
Fecha de publicación1999-06-01
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)
DOI10.2190/5wmh-wj7d-3kx6-jreh
OpenAlexW2090044157
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas5
Referencias citadas32

Adaptation strategies used by Taiwanese widows following the deaths of their spouses were identified and analyzed. Thirty-five Taiwanese widows representing a cross-section of such demographic features as rural/urban, ethnic background, age, and education level were interviewed. According to their descriptions, the five coping strategies most commonly used were keeping busy, shifting focus, speaking out, doing something for their deceased husbands, and looking at the good side of their spouses' deaths. It is suggested that adaptation to loss should be viewed in a more positive light, since it represents an effort to bridge the past with the future rather than an act of detaching one's self from prior experiences and emotional pain. An argument is made that some of these strategies are unique products of Taiwanese culture

Coping (psychology · Ethnic group · Sociology · Clinical Psychology · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health · Migration, Health and Trauma · Psychology · Social Psychology