Centre of Social and Psychological Sciences, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Institute of Experimental Psychology, Kosice, Slovakia.
Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA.
Death Stud. 2020;44(2):78-88. doi: 10.1080/07481187.2018.1522386. Epub 2018 Dec 12.
Using a mixed-methods approach, we examined how participants' memories of socialization regarding death might influence their self-reported coping with losses in childhood and adulthood. We recruited 318 adults to complete an online survey. Path analyses indicated that participants who remembered their parents shielding them less from issues related to death reported better coping as children and adults. Qualitative responses suggested participants wanted to receive more information about death from their parents as they went through the grieving process. We highlight the potential benefits of socializing children about death, and how it may aid in their coping with death-related events.
采用混合方法,我们研究了参与者对死亡社会化的记忆如何影响他们对儿童期和成年期丧失的自我报告应对方式。我们招募了 318 名成年人完成在线调查。路径分析表明,那些记得父母较少让他们回避与死亡相关问题的参与者,在儿童期和成年期的应对能力更好。定性反应表明,参与者在经历悲伤过程时,希望从父母那里获得更多关于死亡的信息。我们强调了让儿童了解死亡的潜在好处,以及它如何帮助他们应对与死亡相关的事件。