The impact of the death of a peer on adolescents

dc.contributor.authorWeise, Kerri Annen
dc.contributor.departmentPsychologyen
dc.date.accessioned2014-03-14T21:30:30Zen
dc.date.adate2009-03-03en
dc.date.available2014-03-14T21:30:30Zen
dc.date.issued1992en
dc.date.rdate2009-03-03en
dc.date.sdate2009-03-03en
dc.description.abstractIncreasing rates of adolescent homicide, suicide, and AIDS have forced researchers to relinquish comforting beliefs about youth and vitality, and to accept the reality of adolescent death. Previous studies of bereavement have given precedence to parental and fraternal relations, and peers of deceased adolescents have gone largely unnoticed. What literature exists in the area of peer bereavement suggests that the process of mourning a peer closely parallels the process of mourning a sibling. The present study set forth to study empirically the cognitive, behavioral, and affective responses of adolescents to the death of a peer, and to determine possible mediators of bereavement reactions. Fifty undergraduates who had recently lost a peer (bereaved) and 52 controls (nonbereaved) were compared on a series of objective measures. Beliefs about the meaningfulness of the world, self-worth, and morality emerged as important variables in distinguishing between bereaved and nonbereaved samples. Further, satisfaction with an available social support network, and locus of control appeared as significant variables, accounting for differences in grief responses of the bereaved. Results are discussed within a developmental framework.en
dc.description.degreeMaster of Scienceen
dc.format.extentv, 97 leavesen
dc.format.mediumBTDen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.otheretd-03032009-040328en
dc.identifier.sourceurlhttp://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-03032009-040328/en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/41341en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherVirginia Techen
dc.relation.haspartLD5655.V855_1992.W447.pdfen
dc.relation.isformatofOCLC# 28616523en
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subject.lccLD5655.V855 1992.W447en
dc.subject.lcshBereavement in youth -- Psychological aspectsen
dc.subject.lcshDeath -- Psychological aspectsen
dc.subject.lcshLoss (Psychology)en
dc.subject.lcshYouth and deathen
dc.titleThe impact of the death of a peer on adolescentsen
dc.typeThesisen
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten
thesis.degree.disciplinePsychologyen
thesis.degree.grantorVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State Universityen
thesis.degree.levelmastersen
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Scienceen

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