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Language Analysis as a Window to Bereaved Parents’ Emotions During a Parent–Physician Bereavement Meeting
| Content Provider | PubMed Central |
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| Author | Susan, Eggly Manning, Mark A. Slatcher, Richard B. Berg, Robert A. Wessel, David L. Newth, Christopher J. L. Shanley, Thomas P. Harrison, Rick Dalton, Heidi Dean, J. Michael Doctor, Allan Jenkins, Tammara Meert, Kathleen L. |
| Abstract | Parent–physician bereavement meetings may benefit parents by facilitating sense making, which is associated with healthy adjustment after a traumatic event. Prior research suggests a reciprocal relationship between sense making and positive emotions. We analyzed parents’ use of emotion words during bereavement meetings to better understand parents’ emotional reactions during the meeting and how their emotional reactions related to their appraisals of the meeting. Parents’ use of positive emotion words increased, suggesting the meetings help parents make sense of the death. Parents’ use of positive emotion words was negatively related to their own and/or their spouse’s appraisals of the meeting, suggesting that parents who have a positive emotional experience during the meeting may also have a short-term negative reaction. Language analysis can be an effective tool to understand individuals’ ongoing emotions and meaning making processes during interventions to reduce adverse consequences of a traumatic event, such as a child’s death. |
| Related Links | http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0261927X14555549 |
| Ending Page | 199 |
| Page Count | 19 |
| Starting Page | 181 |
| File Format | |
| ISSN | 15526526 |
| e-ISSN | 15526526 |
| Journal | Journal of language and social psychology |
| Issue Number | 2 |
| Volume Number | 34 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 2015-03-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Research in Higher Education |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
| Subject | Sociology and Political Science Education Anthropology Social Psychology Linguistics and Language |
