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Citation

Leichtentritt RD, Leichtentritt J, Barzilai Y, Pedatsur-Sukenik N. Death Stud. 2013; 37(9): 803-829.

Affiliation

a Bob Shapell School of Social Work , Tel Aviv University , Tel Aviv , Israel.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2013, Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

10.1080/07481187.2012.699907

PMID

24517592

Abstract

This qualitative study examined the loss experience of 15 Israeli bereaved girlfriends of fallen soldiers. The girlfriends of fallen Israeli soldiers are socially unacknowledged as being bereaved. This disenfranchised experience of grief is conveyed through social exclusion components and personal experiences of grief that were conceptualized into four themes: (a) learning about the loss; (b) loneliness and lack of social support; (c) intensifying initial experiences while creating alternative social networks; and (d) missed opportunities. The results provide new insight into the concept of disenfranchised grief, suggesting it is a multidimensional experience that includes personal, interpersonal, and social dimensions, each of which falls along a continuum ranging from a sense of acceptance to a sense of exclusion. Results also suggest that there are various depths to the experience of disenfranchised grief, which changes over time. Thus, disenfranchised grief is an ongoing and temporal personal, interpersonal, and social experience. Practical implications are discussed.


Language: en

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