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Personal Fear of Death and Grief in Bereaved Mothers

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Pages 445-460
Received 10 Nov 2006
Accepted 10 Jun 2007
Published online: 18 Apr 2008
 

The study explored the relation of fear of death (Multidimensional Fear of Death Scale) to maternal grief (Perinatal Grief Scale-33) following miscarriage, stillbirth, neonatal death, or infant/child death. The 400 women participants were recruited from the website, e-mail lists, and parent groups of an organization that supports bereaved parents. Fear of death had a statistically significant relation with maternal grief. Fear of the Unknown, Fear of Premature Death, and Fear of Conscious Death made significant unique contributions to the variance in maternal grief. The fear of death operative in maternal grief seems to be the fear of personal extinction.

We are grateful to Professor Beverley Raphael and Professor Robert Kastenbaum for their comments on an earlier draft of this article and to Dr. Robert Halliday for automating the relative mean substitution method for inserting missing Likert scale values into SPSS.

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