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“It’s your loss”: Making loss one’s own through blog narrative practices
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posted on 2020-04-02, 00:00 authored by Alexander J Karkar, Lisa BurkeLisa BurkeThis study investigated whether the 30 prompted categories of Gillies, Neimeyer, and Milman’s (2014) Meaning of Loss Codebook (MLC) emerged in the unprompted and naturalistic blogs of four grieving widows. Furthermore, the study aimed to examine how such meanings emerged through each participant’s processes of narrativization. Results showed that 26 of 30 MLC meanings emerged over 582 posts. Furthermore, in blogs demonstrating continued bonds with the deceased, MLC meanings formed networks integrated within narrative pathways. Conversely, in cases where severing ties were formulated as a condition of “moving on,” meanings appeared in isolation of narrative and complications in narrativization were evident.
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Death StudiesVolume
44Issue
4Pagination
210 - 222Publisher
RoutledgeLocation
Philadelphia, Pa.Publisher DOI
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0748-1187eISSN
1091-7683Language
engPublication classification
C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journalCopyright notice
2018, Taylor & Francis GroupUsage metrics
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