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{"title":"Parental Grief After the Unexpected Death of a Child: A Scoping Review About the Impact on Parent's Social Networks and the Function of Self-Help Groups.","authors":"Javier Berrozpe, María Cantero-García, Irene Caro-Cañizares","doi":"10.1177/00302228241280336","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00302228241280336","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The unexpected death of a child, whether due to accident, sudden death syndrome, suicide, or homicide, causes profound parental grief that endures for years. Often, this grief is not fully understood by the social environment, leading parents to feel increasingly misunderstood and isolated. While initial support may be provided, it can become insufficient over time. Therefore, many parents turn to support groups, finding multiple benefits such as validation of their feelings, a safe space to discuss their children and express emotions, strengthening of their social identity, and a platform for reconstructing meaning in their lives. A scoping review was carried on to review the state of knowledge regarding the role that self-help groups can play in case of bereavement due to the unexpected death of a child and regarding the impact on social relationships referred to in these contexts. The search was conducted on 11 databases and grey literature and provided 22 final results. Reviewed studies confirm the impact of this loss, particularly on mothers, and suggest that self-help groups contribute to a more favorable development of the grieving process. Despite the scarcity of research, future studies could leverage newer theoretical models and measurement tools to confirm protective, predictive, and risk factors.</p>","PeriodicalId":74338,"journal":{"name":"Omega","volume":" ","pages":"2333-2370"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142115652","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Living Death in the City of Widows: A Mixed-Methods Study of Social Death, Stigma, and Abandonment Among Older Widows in Vrindavan, India.","authors":"Tekmal Solmanraj","doi":"10.1177/00302228261484440","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00302228261484440","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>India has 46.4 million widows, the highest number globally, with thousands migrating to Vrindavan, the \"City of Widows,\" where they experience systematic social exclusion and marginalization (Loomba Foundation, 2015; Pathak & Tripathi, 2016). This study examines the socio-psychological, cultural, and economic problems faced by widows in Vrindavan through the lens of social death theory (Goffman, 1963; Kastenbaum, 1977). A convergent parallel mixed-methods design (Creswell & Plano Clark, 2017) employed structured interviews (N = 258) and qualitative case narratives. Participants were selected via stratified random sampling from government-run ashrams (n = 101), NGO-run ashrams (n = 56), and rented accommodations (n = 101). Quantitative data were analyzed using chi-square tests, and qualitative data were analyzed using thematic analysis (Braun & Clarke, 2006). Integration occurred at the interpretation stage using a weaving approach (Fetters et al., 2013). All respondents reported experiencing stigma (100%); 93.8% received no family visitors; 98.8% reported self-reported psychological symptoms; and 71.7% had no pension. Economic independence was significantly associated with spending capacity (χ2 = 126.502, df = 3, p < .001). Education was associated with lower levels of self-reported depressive symptoms (χ2 = 19.019, df = 20, p = .021). Qualitative thematic analysis revealed four key themes: (1) The Family as Site of Danger, (2) Internalized Stigma and Self-Exclusion, (3) Institutional Care and Its Limits, and (4) Resilience amid Social Exclusion. Widows in Vrindavan experience systematic social exclusion before biological death through four mechanisms: ritual degradation, spatial exclusion, affective abandonment, and economic destitution. The study extends social death theory by demonstrating that social erasure is a cumulative process rather than a binary state, and that cultural stigma operates independently of economic status. Policy interventions for pension coverage, mental health support, legal awareness, and dignified care are urgently needed.</p>","PeriodicalId":74338,"journal":{"name":"Omega","volume":" ","pages":"302228261484440"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2026-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148868176","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Doluance and Prolonged Grief Disorder: Toward a Framework of Constitutive Simultaneity.","authors":"Jacques Cherblanc","doi":"10.1177/00302228261481961","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00302228261481961","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Many bereaved persons who experience persistent yearning, a transformed sense of identity, and ongoing connection to the deceased, all at once, find themselves either pathologized by existing diagnostic frameworks or left without a conceptual language for what they are living. This article identifies a common root for the major debates surrounding the delimitation of Prolonged Grief Disorder (PGD): the absence of a framework that treats the co-occurrence of loss and continuing presence as a constitutive structure of grief. Drawing on the concept of doluance, defined as the constitutive simultaneity of rupture and transformed presence in bereavement, the article evaluates the heuristic reach of this framework beyond its context of origin (Canada, COVID-19 pandemic). The analysis is developed through the close examination of four emblematic items from current PGD assessment instruments and outlines an empirical agenda whose initial hypotheses can be tested with existing datasets.</p>","PeriodicalId":74338,"journal":{"name":"Omega","volume":" ","pages":"302228261481961"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2026-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148868261","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Hakka Funeral Dress, Ritual Process, and Clan Order.","authors":"Bin Li, Yingying Du, Xingsheng Jin, Zhiqin Du, Hui Tao","doi":"10.1177/00302228261480608","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00302228261480608","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Based on the Dongyuan cases examined here, this article analyzes Hakka funeral attire as a material system that regulates ritual action. It draws on ritual texts, local gazetteers, costume studies, fieldwork conducted in March 2026 in Dongyuan County, Heyuan City, Guangdong Province, and digital garment reconstruction. Rather than claiming a single uniform Hakka funeral system, it focuses on recurring patterns in the distinction between <i>shouyi</i> for the deceased and for the living. The Dongyuan materials suggest that funeral dress structures touch, sequence, visibility, and social judgment during mortuary practice. Attire localizes Confucian mourning codes while mediating lineage hierarchy, gendered labor, and natal-affinal negotiation. The article contributes to death studies and material religion by showing how clothing can manage transition, evaluate kinship obligation, and preserve moral order at the boundary between body, household, and ancestorhood.</p>","PeriodicalId":74338,"journal":{"name":"Omega","volume":" ","pages":"302228261480608"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2026-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148842381","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Human-Pet Bond and Grief: Attachment Style as a Moderator after Pet Loss.","authors":"Sakshi Bisht, Nidhi Jain, Meenakshi Chauhan, Rachana Maurya","doi":"10.1177/00302228261481410","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00302228261481410","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The current study was designed to investigate the moderating role of attachment style in the relationship between emotional attachment and prolonged grief following pet death. 204 persons, aged 18-35 years who had experienced the loss of a companion animal were sampled. Other measures included the Prolonged Grief Disorder (PG-13-R) and a Measure of Attachment Styles. Secure attachment strengthened the relationship between pet attachment and grief intensity, suggesting that individuals who form strong but secure emotional bonds may experience deeper grief after loss. Avoidant attachment also intensified this relationship, indicating that suppressed emotional patterns may still lead to strong grief responses when the bond is significant. Ambivalent attachment, although positively related to grief intensity, did not significantly moderate the relationship between attachment level and grief outcomes. However, the observed moderation effects were modest, suggesting that attachment style represents only one of several factors influencing this relationship.</p>","PeriodicalId":74338,"journal":{"name":"Omega","volume":" ","pages":"302228261481410"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2026-08-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148820697","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"When the Dead Respond: Artificial Intelligence, Continuing Bonds, and the Psychoanalytic Boundaries of Mourning.","authors":"Nicolas Nieuviarts, Narcisz Ferenczi, Marie-Frédérique Bacqué","doi":"10.1177/00302228261480624","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00302228261480624","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The growing use of artificial intelligence (AI) in bereavement, through griefbots, post-mortem avatars, and interactive memorials, raises clinical, ethical, and anthropological questions about absence, symbolization, and the work of mourning. Drawing on psychoanalytic perspectives and contemporary grief research, this theoretical article situates AI-mediated mourning within a historical continuity of material and cultural mediations with the dead, while emphasizing a qualitative shift introduced by interactivity: traces no longer merely persist; they respond. We argue that such devices may, in certain circumstances, function as transitional supports that help contain affects and facilitate continuing bonds. However, their availability and simulated reciprocity also risk fostering avoidance of separation, relational dependency, or melancholic fixation by blurring boundaries between memory and presence. We conclude that the clinical task is not to condemn or endorse these technologies, but to assess their psychic function case by case and preserve symbolic limits alongside human presence.</p>","PeriodicalId":74338,"journal":{"name":"Omega","volume":" ","pages":"302228261480624"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2026-08-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148815206","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"\"Embracing the Grief\": The Home Memorial Room as a Spatial Prosthesis and a Space of Narrative Rebellion Among Parents of Fallen Soldiers.","authors":"Oren Cohen-Zada","doi":"10.1177/00302228261481350","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00302228261481350","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This phenomenological study examines 21 bereaved parent couples from the \"Iron Swords\" War who established home memorial rooms. Using dyadic interviews, the phenomenon of \"spatial-dyadic regulation\" was analyzed-a process where the room acts as a \"spatial prosthesis\" compensating for the identity fracture within the couple. Findings reveal \"Builder and Curator\" dynamics, which generate shared agency to restore control. The \"dyadic buffer\" concept defines the room as a regulator for \"depositing\" bereavement within a bounded territory, creating a \"sterile zone\" in the rest of the home for life's continuity. The \"epistemic alliance\" highlights a narrative rebellion against the nationalization of the soldier's image, prioritizing biographical-civilian identity. \"Material archaeology\" emphasizes tangible objects as essential anchors against digital grief. Clinicians must validate the tension between the room's sanctity and the home's vitality to reconstruct the couple's meaning.</p>","PeriodicalId":74338,"journal":{"name":"Omega","volume":" ","pages":"302228261481350"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2026-08-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148820668","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Digitally Mediated Continuing Bonds: Social Media, Grief, and Relational Continuity after Death.","authors":"Sadia Malik","doi":"10.1177/00302228261479913","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00302228261479913","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Digital communication technologies have changed how bereaved people communicate emotionally with the deceased through conversations, images, voice notes, and social profiles. Digital mourning has received extensive research attention, but there has been less focus on continuing bonds and everyday mourning experiences shaped by digitally preserved traces. This qualitative, interpretive study used semi-structured interviews with 24 bereaved participants and reflexive thematic analysis. Four themes were found: an ongoing presence in digital space, continuity of conversation with the deceased, algorithmic return of grievance, and symbolic immortality through platforms' persistence. The results reveal that digital platforms are relational spaces that continue to foster relationships with the deceased through archived interactions and algorithmically surfaced content. One main discovery is that algorithmic systems actively shape bereavement by repeatedly reminding people of their deceased loved ones. The study develops the concept of digitally mediated continuing bonds by combining continuing bonds, attachment, symbolic immortality theories, and cyberpsychology.</p>","PeriodicalId":74338,"journal":{"name":"Omega","volume":" ","pages":"302228261479913"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2026-08-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148802802","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Culturally Embedded, Gendered, and Iterative Grief Among Adult Sons Following Paternal Loss: A Qualitative Study.","authors":"Hsiang-Wan Tseng, Shwu-Hua Lee, Kuo-Chen Liao, Ching-Yen Chen, Hsiu-Lan Lee, Yun-Fang Tsai","doi":"10.1177/00302228261478834","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00302228261478834","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The death of a father is a major transition for adult sons, particularly in cultures emphasizing filial duty and masculine norms. This qualitative study explored how 24 bereaved sons in Chinese society experienced paternal loss using in-depth interviews and reflexive thematic analysis. Findings revealed a non-linear, iterative grieving process: sons assumed family responsibilities, maintained relational bonds, managed paradoxical emotions, reflected on father-son relationships, and engaged in recursive coping. Grief was culturally mediated, relational, and identity-transforming, highlighting the need for culturally sensitive support for bereaved adult sons.</p>","PeriodicalId":74338,"journal":{"name":"Omega","volume":" ","pages":"302228261478834"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2026-08-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148802736","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Twilight Grief: Conceptualizing Prolonged Pre-death Grief in Serious Chronic and Life-Limiting Illness.","authors":"Amelia Seraphia Derr, Elizabeth Schandelmeier","doi":"10.1177/00302228261478337","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00302228261478337","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This paper introduces <i>twilight grief</i> as a concept to describe the prolonged, multidimensional grief experienced by individuals with serious chronic or life-limiting illness and their caregivers. Existing frameworks such as anticipatory, preparatory, ambiguous, and disenfranchised grief do not fully capture the ongoing, recursive nature of grief in the context of extended, uncertain illness trajectories. As medical advances extend life, patients and caregivers often occupy a liminal space marked by cumulative loss, shifting identities, and persistent uncertainty. <i>Twilight grief</i> may begin before diagnosis and persist for months or years, lacking clear resolution or social recognition. Unlike frameworks centered on bereavement or imminent death, <i>twilight grief</i> is defined by an ongoing focus on living amid decline and the coexistence of hope and sorrow. Frequently invisible and unsupported, <i>twilight grief</i> demands greater clinical and systemic attention. We outline its defining features, distinguish it from related concepts, and discuss implications for practice, policy, and future research.</p>","PeriodicalId":74338,"journal":{"name":"Omega","volume":" ","pages":"302228261478337"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2026-08-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148802811","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}