Department of Psychology, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
Death Stud. 2013 Jul;37(6):569-88. doi: 10.1080/07481187.2012.673534.
The death of a neonate can be traumatic for mothers, resulting in profound grief which ruptures their sense of coherence and identity. A narrative approach was used to explore how six Xhosa-speaking women tell stories about the death of their baby to help them understand the significance of the loss. They struggled to establish a sense of their baby as a person to be mourned, to redefine their own identity, and to find reasons for the death. Their meaning-making was influenced by the baby's father, older women in their community, and the context of deprivation in which they live.
新生儿的死亡会给母亲带来创伤，使她们深感悲痛，从而破坏她们的整体感和身份认同感。本研究采用叙事方法来探索 6 位说科萨语的女性如何讲述自己孩子死亡的故事，以帮助她们理解失去孩子的意义。她们努力将自己的孩子定义为一个值得哀悼的人，重新定义自己的身份，并为孩子的死亡寻找原因。她们的意义构建受到婴儿父亲、社区中的老年妇女以及她们所处的贫困环境的影响。
