Widowhood and Husband Sanctification
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2587909 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Helena Znaniecki Lopata (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1981 |
| Volume | 43 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 439 |
| Publication date | 1981-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Marriage and the Family (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-2445 • E-ISSN: 1741-3737 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/351394 |
| OpenAlex | W2019524387 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 32 |
| References cited | 7 |
A sample of metropolitan Chicago widows who are current or former beneficiaries of Social Security shows a strong tendency to idealize the late husband and life with him before his fatal illness or accident, often to the point of sanctification. However, there are important variations in responses to each of 13 items on a sanctification scale and in the characteristics of widows who are extreme in this idealization and those who deviate from this extreme. Four interdependent variables proved of greatest influence on sanctification scale scores: age, education, income prior to the husband's fatal illness or accident, and race. This paper focuses on the influence of schooling and race, concluding that women who are likely to have had a difficult time in marriage, due to minority status, inadequate education and income, and related problems, are less apt to idealize the late husband and the marriage than are women without these handicaps
Geography · Idealization · Interdependence · Race (biology · Remarriage · Sanctification · Scale (ratio · Social science · Sociology · Demography · Gender Studies · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health · Homicide, Infanticide, and Child Abuse · Intimate Partner and Family Violence · Psychology
Women’s attitudes toward forming new partnerships in widowhood
Parental response to child loss across the life cycle
Do Afterlife Beliefs Affect Psychological Adjustment to Late-Life Spousal Loss
Till Death Do Us Part
Widowhood
Psychological and Physical Health in Widowhood
Idionecrophanies
Stability and Change in Psychosocial Resources during Caregiving and Bereavement in Partners of Men with Aids
El rechazo de las mujeres mayores viudas a volverse a emparejar
Religion and Spirituality? The Roles of Sanctification and the Concept of God
I’m just doing my job’
Widowhood in old age
Translating research findings into community based theatre
You're not getting married for the moon and the stars”
To Have and Have Not
Bereavement of Israeli Arab Muslim widows
Attitudes toward the female role
Adult Child Loss and the Two-Track Model of Bereavement
Extraordinary Experiences of the Bereaved and Adaptive Outcomes of Grief
Love and Bereavement
Psychological Resilience Among Widowed Men and Women
Divorce and Remarriage at Middle Age and Beyond
Contested memory
The Effects of Marital Dissolution and Marital Quality on Health and Health Service Use Among Women
Does My Grief Count? When Ex-Family Grieve
Time in Anticipated Future and Events in Memory
Primary mourners and next-of-kin - how grief practices reiterate and subvert heterosexual norms
The Husband
Reflecting on the Father
Who's to Blame? Perceived Responsibility for Spousal Death and Psychological Distress among Older Widowed Persons
Do Spousal Discrepancies in Marital Quality Assessments Affect Psychological Adjustment to Widowhood
The desire to date and remarry among older widows and widowers
| Unique citing works | 32 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,71 |
| Citation span | 1981 - 2022 (42) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 31 |