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Abstract
With survey data collected primarily from peer support group participants, the authors compared stigmatization responses of 462 parents losing children to suicide with 54 other traumatic death survivors and 24 child natural death survivors. Parents who encountered harmful responses and strained relations with family members and non-kin reported heightened grief difficulties. After controlling for time since the death and whether a child's death was traumatic or not, stigmatization continued to be associated with grief difficulties, depression, and suicidal thinking. Suicide survivors reported little differences in stigmatization from other-traumatic-death survivors, a result consistent with other recent studies, suggesting more convergence between these two populations than divergence.
Notes
Note. Data taken from the Survivors Child Loss Survey, 2006–2007.
Notes. Data taken from the Survivors Child Loss Survey, 2006–2007.
a Each relationship group is listed in order of its occurrence of strained relations and unhelpful responses by percentage from lowest to highest.
b Each percentage was calculated from the number reporting a weaker or strained and/or harmed relationship divided by the total number reporting having that type of a relationship.
c Each percentage was calculated from the number reporting an improved relationship and/or helped response divided by the total number reporting having that type of a relationship.
Notes. Data taken from the Survivors Child Loss Survey, 2006–2007.
a Each relationship group is listed in order of its occurrence of strained relations and unhelpful responses by percentage from lowest to highest.
b Each percentage was calculated from the number reporting a weaker or strained and/or harmed relationship divided by the total number reporting having that type of a relationship.
c Each percentage was calculated from the number reporting an improved relationship and/or helped response divided by the total number reporting having that type of a relationship.
Notes. Number of obstacles = 449; F(3, 445) = 52.7; R 2 = .26. Data taken from the Child Loss Survey, March 2006–May 2007.
Notes. Number of obstacles = 439; F (4,434) = 70.8; R 2 = .39. Data taken from the Child Loss Survey, March 2006–May 2007.
Notes. Number of obstacles = 437; F (5,431) = 70.8; R 2 = .33. Data taken from the Child Loss Survey, March 2006–May 2007.