Sejrsgaard Marie, Hvidtjørn Dorte, Prinds Christina
Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Southern Denmark (SDU), Odense, Denmark.
Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.
Death Stud. 2025;49(6):807-815. doi: 10.1080/07481187.2024.2361744. Epub 2024 Jun 4.
In the high-income countries of Scandinavia, there is a low statistical risk of death during childbirth. However, awareness of the possibility of death seems to have prevailed. In existential psychology and philosophy, awareness of death is a universal condition in life, and facing the anxiety this awareness might invoke has the potential of being life-invigorating. In a hermeneutic analysis of Qualitative data, generated in a study on new parents' existential meaning-making, this study aimed to explore awareness of death as experienced in parenthood transition. The results found two overarching themes: and . These were interpreted in existential philosophical and psychological theories, and concludes that awareness of death might signify an existential integration of 'self' in the new role of parenthood. Acknowledging these thoughts as healthcare professionals could support the meaning-making of parenthood transition, by normalizing their universal nature.
在斯堪的纳维亚的高收入国家，分娩期间的死亡统计风险较低。然而，对死亡可能性的认知似乎普遍存在。在存在主义心理学和哲学中，对死亡的认知是生活中的一种普遍状况，面对这种认知可能引发的焦虑具有振奋生命的潜力。在一项对新父母存在意义建构研究中生成的定性数据的诠释学分析中，本研究旨在探讨在为人父母的转变过程中所体验到的对死亡的认知。研究结果发现了两个总体主题： 和 。这些主题在存在主义哲学和心理学理论中得到诠释，并得出结论，对死亡的认知可能意味着“自我”在新的父母角色中的存在主义整合。作为医疗保健专业人员，承认这些想法可以通过使其普遍性质正常化来支持为人父母转变过程中的意义建构。
