The Meaning of Miscarriage to Others: Is it an Unrecognized Loss?

C. Renner, Sophia Verdekal, S. Brier, G. Fallucca
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Abstract Miscarriage is a relatively prevalent occurrence in our society. The reported incidence of this event indicates that 20% of all women experience a miscarriage. Women who have miscarried report friends and family responding in ways that seem to try to reduce the impact and importance of the event. This leaves the grieving woman with a sense of little support or understanding of what she had just experienced. Furthermore, the experiences reported by women who have had a miscarriage are quite different from those reported by other individuals who have experienced other types of loss such as a spouse, partner, parent, or friend. Women who have miscarried report a lack of recognition that they have experienced a loss. Little is known about how society views miscarriage or why individuals respond in such an apparently unsupportive manner to a woman who has had a miscarriage. The present work sought to determine whether miscarriage is an unrecognized loss and to assess the meaning of miscarriage to others. Although the results indicate miscarriage is viewed as a loss, it is a loss with minimal grounded or valuative meaning for others, which suggests that the cultural norm of silence surrounding early pregnancy and miscarriage should be lifted
流产对他人的意义:是一种未被承认的损失吗?
摘要流产在我国社会是一种较为普遍的现象。据报道,这一事件的发生率表明,20%的妇女经历过流产。流产的妇女报告说,朋友和家人的反应似乎试图降低事件的影响和重要性。这让悲伤的女人对她刚刚经历的事情感到缺乏支持或理解。此外,流产妇女报告的经历与其他经历过其他类型损失(如配偶、伴侣、父母或朋友)的人报告的经历大不相同。流产的妇女报告说,她们没有意识到自己失去了孩子。社会是如何看待流产的,以及为什么人们对流产的女性表现出如此明显的不支持态度,人们对此知之甚少。目前的工作旨在确定流产是否是一种未被承认的损失,并评估流产对他人的意义。尽管研究结果表明,流产被视为一种损失,但对其他人来说,这种损失几乎没有任何基础或价值意义,这表明应该取消围绕早孕和流产的沉默文化规范
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