Death Studies

Article	Citations
Psycholinguistic, Stroop, and self-report measurements of death anxiety: A study of convergent validity	54
Introduction of the French version of the Multidimensional Orientation Toward Dying and Death Inventory (MODDI-F/fre)	51
Social disabling: A qualitative study of interpersonal interaction patterns of shiduers in China	34
Death attitudes and Chinese college students’ mental health: A latent profile analysis	25
Coping and grief symptoms after parental loss in adolescence - a nationwide follow-up study	20
Correlations between the euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide rates and the non-assisted suicide rates at the municipal level in the Netherlands	19
Violence and suicide risk behavior in a nationally representative sample of youth aged 12-17: What does it mean to be at-risk?	18
“Who is going to take care of these grandkids if I go?”: End-of-life planning by caregivers in grandparent-headed households	18
A poetry of grief	17
Aesthetic practices in bereavement	17
End-of-life care volunteers’ initial motivational profile and their death anxiety: A latent profile analysis	16
Mothers’ views on death education for children aged 4–6	16
Supporting palliative patients on their journey	14
An online grief intervention to improve well-being and reduce clinical symptoms: a randomized controlled trial	14
Grief Coach : Feasibility and acceptability of a text message program for bereavement support among grievers in the United Kingdom	13
The gift of peer understanding and suicide bereavement support groups: A qualitative study	13
“Mum, when we die, what do you think happens?” A qualitative study of views on death education among Spanish families	12
Exploring the stigma of suicide in Malaysia: Lived experience perspectives	12
Community-based death preparation and education: A scoping review	11
Age does matter for hospice care: Health care providers’ attitudes toward hospice care in Binzhou, China	11
Mourning rituals impact grief outcomes in East and Southeast Asia: A mixed-methods review	11
Balancing roles: Teaching staff’s dilemma in supporting bereaved college students	11
Polish firefighters’ attitudes toward death	11
Readiness of a U.S. Black community to address suicide	10
Primary intervention promoting quality of life in bereaved individuals: A pilot study	10

Grief, mourning, and the body: Ritual attention to the death of victims of the dictatorship in Chile*	10
Frequency of suicidal ideation inventory: A reliability generalization meta-analysis	10
Police officers’ experiences of posttraumatic stress and loss after a colleague’s suicide: A qualitative study	10
Transforming funeral practices: Rituality and necropower in mass death situations	10
The impact of heteropatriarchy and support on grief in sexual minorities: A qualitative study	10
Applying attachment theory to grief therapy through the therapeutic relationship	9
Survivors’ perspectives on saying goodbye: Implications for end-of-life engagement across the lifespan and grieving process	9
Continuing bonds or ongoing attachments? Exploring the distinction	9
Grief trajectories among bereaved parents after the 2011 Utøya terror attack: A qualitative analysis	9
The phenomenon of bereavement anniversary reactions: An integrative systematic review	8
Turkish version of the Pet Bereavement Questionnaire: Validity, reliability and psychometric properties	8
Older bereaved adults experiences navigating daily life without their loved one: A qualitative study	8
Factors associated with grief in informal carers of people living with Motor Neuron Disease: A mixed methods systematic review	8
Shared death experience or shared beliefs?	8
Unity strengthens and inhibits development: A focus group interview with volunteer adults in support programs for bereaved children and their family	8
Thoughts and emotions evoked by thinking about own death: American versus Japanese undergraduates	8
Relationship between lifestyle changes, psychological well-being, and grief impairment in elderly after death of spouse	8
The association between continuing bonds and indicators of mental health and coping in bereaved university students	8
Windmills and pediatric palliative care	8
A conceptual review of a land-informed Native American Death Pedagogy: Overcoming settler colonialism and the Western Death System towards possibilities and futurities	7
Navigating mortality: A multidisciplinary approach to the epistemology and practice of death education	7
Turkish adaptation and psychometric evaluation of the Grief Impairment Scale	7
Death before birth: An encounter between Prenatal Pedagogy and the Pedagogy of Death	7
Cultural differences on baby loss experiences: A comparison of the US and New Zealand	7
The silent grief of grandmothers after an out-of-order death—An interpretative phenomenological analysis	7
Navigating the edge: A personal account of madness, suicide, and recovery	7
Parents’ lived experience of support through their neonate’s end of life and grief journey: An interpretative phenomenology study	7
Attachment styles, continuing bonds, and grief following companion animal death	7
To ventilate or not to ventilate: A qualitative analysis of physicians’ experience during the first and second waves of the COVID-19 pandemic	7
Reflecting on the concept of death: A qualitative investigation of the experiences among early childhood education teachers	7
Effectiveness of the death education in Chinese nurses: A mixed method study	7
Providing a voice to the experience of bereavement support at Mexican workplaces	7
Applying terror management theory as a framework to understand the impact of heightened mortality salience on children, adolescents, and their parents: A systematic review	7
Disembodied ritual: An explorative study on the meanings of physical absence during funerals by bereaved in times of COVID-19	7
How to prevent suicidal behavior and non-suicidal self-injury? An analysis of adolescent typologies	7
What predicts suicidality among psychologists? An examination of risk and resilience	6
Developing a scale to measure social dynamics in funeral ceremonies: A mixed methods approach	6
Adult insecure attachment styles and suicidality: A meta-analysis	6
Assessing prioritization of a good death across Brazil, Italy, Japan, and the United States: A psychometric evaluation	6
Ecological momentary assessment in prolonged grief research: Feasibility, acceptability, and measurement reactivity	6
Knowledge production in participatory grief research: A dialogical theoretical approach	6
In the wake of a boat: The politics of mourning the 18th of April 2015 shipwreck	6
‘I feel so alone… I am nobody, and I am nothing’. A psychosocial autopsy study on adolescent girls’ suicide, with a focus on sexual orientation	6
Explaining suicidal ideation among divorced parents by coping strategies and personality characteristics: A mediation model	6
I occasionally wear his huge sweaters… but I often prefer not to think about it: Bereaved children talking and not talking about parental loss	6
What we said and what I wish we said: Regret during final conversations	6
Stigmatization in the pre-death interactions of family and friends bereaved by a drug-related death	6
“Quality of life matters to me more than life, itself”: A qualitative exploration of older adults’ values and preferences on controlling the time of death	6
Passing through end-of-life suffering: Possible or not? Results from a qualitative inquiry	6
Influencing factors of nurses’ short-term bereavement reactions after patient death	6

Communication about euthanasia in Dutch nursing homes	6
The first 72 hours: Suicide loss survivor experiences with early responders	5
Unveiling the unseen: Exploring stigma in stillbirth care through interdisciplinary narratives	5
Patients’ experiences and expectations of the General Practitioner’s role during bereavement care after losing a loved one: A qualitative study	5
Experiences of grief and loss among registered nurses in residential aged care facilities: A qualitative descriptive study	5
Correlates of prolonged grief, posttraumatic stress and depression symptoms in Brazilian COVID-19 bereaved adults	5
It’s hard not to Be the hero : Soldiers’ grief following injury discharge	5
Supports for university counselors impacted by student suicide: A systematic review and thematic synthesis	5
The Finnish Suicide Competency Assessment Form among mental health providers	5
Mindfulness exercises reduce death anxiety and burnout in intensive care nurses	5
“As long as they remember me, I am alive”: Commemoration and memory through stickers	5
The Pedagogy of Death and education in the wake of the pandemic: Implications for comprehensive teacher education encompassing awareness and the biographical dimension	5
Understanding self-healing: Recovery insights from Indonesian suicide loss survivors and support providers	5
Loss circumstances, grief and political dissatisfaction following COVID-19 deaths in Brazil: A qualitative study	5
Suicide-related communication and circumstances surrounding suicide: Study of police records in Slovenia	5
Dynamic bidirectional relation between state mindfulness and suicidal ideation among female college students: The moderating effect of trait mindfulness	5
Cohort profile of FALCON: a prospective nationwide cohort of families with minor children who have lost a parent in Denmark in 2019–2021	5
The impact of their role on telephone crisis support workers’ psychological wellbeing and functioning: Qualitative findings from a mixed methods investigation	5
Reduced death anxiety as a mediator of the relationship between acute subjective effects of psychedelics and improved subjective well-being	5
Attachment anxiety, loneliness, and death anxiety in problematic social media use	5
Monitoring medical assistance in dying (MAiD) in Canada: Perspectives of physicians, nurse practitioners, and organizational regulatory actors	5
Quality of life and loneliness post-bereavement: Results from a nationwide survey of bereaved older adults	5
Applying the phenomenology of grief: An autoethnographic study	5
Filling in the gaps: A grounded theory of the experiences and needs of healthcare staff following a colleague death by suicide in the UK	5
Consulting parents bereaved by childhood cancer: A qualitative study to improve bereavement services	5
Comparing social media engagement between women with suicidal ideation and those who have attempted suicide	5
Bereavement in Pakistan during the COVID-19 pandemic: Psychometric analysis of the Pandemic Grief Scale-Urdu Version (PGS-UV)	5
The immortality trap: Terror management in the digital context	5
Proof of life: Human remains and memory in the Philippine Drug War	5
Experiences of Iranian people who lost a partner in road traffic collisions: A descriptive phenomenology	5
The impact of a student death doula service-learning experience in palliative care settings on nursing students: A pilot mixed-methods study	5
Grief participation rights and the social support hierarchy: Exploring the communicative role of the bereaved in a social support interaction	5
Factors associated with suicidal ideation among medical students during the initial phase of the COVID-19 pandemic in Peru: A multicenter study	4
“It turned out right for both of us”: A qualitative study about a preference for home death and actual place of death	4
Changing perspectives on participation in assisted dying in Queensland, Australia: A one-year qualitative longitudinal study of doctors	4
“We are the forgotten grievers”: Bereaved family members’ experiences of support and mental ill-health following a road traffic collision	4
Prolonged grief disorder among those who have lost family members due to natural disasters: A mixed design study	4
Latent profile analysis of rumination subtypes and associations with suicidal ideation and behavior	4
End-of-life treatment preferences and advanced care planning among older adults	4
Bereavement policies and plans in education: Evidence, barriers, and recommendations	4
Correction	4
Psychosocial burden after the death of a child from cancer: Results of a bereaved parent survey	4
Hearing the missing voices: Child and adolescent grief	4
Utrecht grief rumination scale (UGRS): Psychometric study of validation of the Portuguese version	4
Neural correlates of death anxiety	4
Understanding how volunteer companionship impacts those during the end of life: A realist evaluation	4
Missing pieces and body parts: On bodily integrity and political violence	4
Posttraumatic growth following a drug-related death: A family perspective	4
“I still think there’s like a huge stigma”: Understanding suicide-related stigma among those with lived experiences	4
Demystifying dying in end-of-life-care: A phenomenological perspective	4
The experiences of grandparents involved in the home-based end-of-life care of their grandchild with cancer: A qualitative secondary data analysis	4
Death perceptions, grief, and distress in Ultra-Orthodox Jews who witnessed the 2021 Meron disaster	4
Do mortality cues increase state autonomy? The moderating roles of trait autonomy, flexibility, and curiosity	4
Navigating autonomy and decision-making capacity: Legal and ethical considerations in Medical Assistance in Dying for individuals with mental disorders in Portugal	4
Transformations and transitions: The social and political life of the dead	4
“I could have”: The lived experience of bereavement-related regret	4
COVID-19 pandemic impact on funeral service workers’ work-related mental health	4
Integration of disaster nursing, technology, and health policy in realizing community resilience	4
The integrated process model of loss and grief - An interprofessional understanding	4
Revising ruling discourses: The griefwork evidence-to-practice gap and the mental health workforce	4
Defense mechanisms and symptoms of depression, anxiety, and stress in bereaved individuals: A network analysis	4
A short-term intervention program for traumatic grief guided by the Two-Track Model of Bereavement (TTMB): Applying a multi-module transtheoretical framework	4
Never-ending funerals. Annual burials and reburials of victims of mass violence in present-day Bosnia and Herzegovina*	4
Exploring the process of adjustment following partner death in younger, widowed individuals: A qualitative systematic review	4
Factors associated with nonparticipation and loss to follow-up in bereavement research using data from a cohort of parents with a loss in pregnancy or the neonatal period	4
Experiences of Black South African widows regarding mourning rituals following the death of their spouses: Upholding cultural practices or violating human rights?	4
Construction of meaning in survivors of suicide loss: A Spanish translation and application of the Meaning in Loss Codebook	4
“It’s not a pain you can fix”: A qualitative exploration of working with vulnerably positioned current and bereaved carers across sectors of health and social care	4
Negotiating the postvention situation: A grounded theory of NHS staff experiences when supporting their coworkers following a colleague’s suicide	3
A case report to understand the use of an evidence-based approach of prolonged grief therapy in Chinese culture	3
Family members’ experiences of bereavement in the emergency department: A meta-synthesis of qualitative studies	3
Level of professional quality of life and coping with death competence in healthcare professionals exposed to perinatal loss: A cross-sectional study	3
“We need to share our stories”: Perspectives from suicide loss survivors in India	3
Factors associated with suicide risk among Brazilian graduate students during the COVID-19 pandemic	3
Grief experiences of nurses who lose their first-degree relatives with the diagnosis of COVID-19: A qualitative study	3
“So, whose milk was it? … It became all of ours, together”: A relational autoethnographic study of an interactional human milk donation process through bereavement	3
Gender differences in grief and growth: An international gender-matched controlled study from Belgium, Canada, and Spain	3
Algorithmic anthropomorphism and AI moral standing: The moderating role of mortality salience	3
“I know she’s there” meanings of continuing bonds for bereaved Costa Rican men: a qualitative study	3
Attitudes of clinical psychologists and medical doctors to assisted dying in the UK: A mixed-methods survey	3

Embodied memories - exploring memorial tattoos through the lens of terror management theory	3
Barriers and solutions to equitable funeral care in the U.S. for the LGBTQIA+ community	3
A long overdue sourcebook of American Indian death and dyingA review of Sociology of Death and the American Indian by Gerry R. Cox. Le	3
Psychodynamic psychotherapy in serious physical illness: A systematic literature review of approaches and techniques for the treatment of existential distress and mental disorders	3
Identifying suicide ideation in mental health application posts: A random forest algorithm	3
Are ‘time’ and ‘culture’ useful and necessary diagnostic requirements for ICD-11 Prolonged Grief Disorder? A Cross-national study	3
Cluster analysis of suicidal ideation and influencing factors among Spanish teachers	3
Partner bereavement when parenting dependent children: What factors influence adjustment?	3
Bereavement outcomes of carers of patients with high grade glioma: Experiences of support before and after the death	3
Meaning-making following loss among bereaved spouses during the COVID-19 pandemic (the CO-LIVE study)	3
Mass Shootings Anxiety Scale: A preliminary psychometric study	3
Measurement invariance of the Grief Facilitation Inventory with respect to youth gender, race, ethnicity, and age	3
Supporting bereaved students: Qualitative insights from Danish college student counselors	3
Continuing bonds of bereaved Muslims mothers with their young dead child	3
Evaluation of the death anxiety beliefs and behaviors scale in Iranian adolescents	3
Psychosocial factors associated with complicated grief in caregivers during COVID-19: Results from a preliminary cross-sectional study	3
Development and validation of the Earthquake Obsession Scale	3
Assessing complicated spiritual grief: A psychometric study of the Inventory of complicated spiritual grief 2.0 in an Iranian context	3
Congenital loss: Loss of an immediate family member prior to or during one’s birth	3
Developing a compassionate university: Insights from a longitudinal process evaluation	3
“Understanding why she had to leave me”: The roles of religion and spirituality in narratives of parents grieving the loss of a child to cancer	3
Exploring attentional bias in nursing students under sadness priming: A dot-probe study	3
Factors influencing home-based death among older adults in mainland China: An application of Andersen behavioral model	3
The mediating role of self-efficacy, social support, and hope in the relation between mental health and resilience among 2023 Türkiye earthquake survivors	3
Maternal mental health, marital adjustment, and family support in the grieving process after a pregnancy loss	3
Framing equivocal deaths in contemporary forensics	3
Relatives’ grief at three moments after death of a loved one during COVID-19 pandemic (the CO-LIVE study)	3
Beyond meaning in life: How a perceived futility in searching for meaning in life predicts suicidal ideation	3
The Fear of COVID-19 Scale: Psychometric properties and measurement invariance across 10 months	3
The psychological burden of bereavement in the general population of UK and Ireland	3
Accessing an assisted death from the UK: Navigating the legal ‘grey’ area	3
“You have to be mentally prepared for that moment”: Attitudes of the adolescent population to death and their educational implications	3
Risk and correlates of prolonged grief disorder in bereaved Chinese university students	3
Transnational grieving: The lived experience of Overseas Filipino Workers who lost their loved ones due to COVID-19	2
Dying for help: How mortality salience impacts perceptions of victims	2
Terror management theory in action during a realtime mortality salience experience: The case of parents’ and grandparents’ reactions to wartime	2
Impacts of exposure to suicide of a military colleague from the lived experience of veterans: Informing postvention responses from a military cultural perspective	2
Theories and concepts about society, dying, and bereavement commonly discussed in education about death, dying, and bereavement	2
Continuing bonds and the posthumous child	2
Behavioral health correlates of the death of an acquaintance during a mass violence incident in six US communities	2
Resilience among bereaved college students: Indicators, facilitators, and barriers	2
Bereaved UK military families: A mixed methods study on the provision of practical and emotional support	2
The political typologies of the dead in Zimbabwe	2
Suicidal intent disclosure among adult suicide decedents: Four age group comparisons	2
From theory to reality: Unraveling the development of mature death concept	2
Measuring the outcomes of support provided to people after a suicide or other sudden bereavement: A scoping review	2
The Meaning in Loss protocol: A clinical trial of online grief therapy	2
Post-traumatic growth following the death of a parent from homicide: A reflective perspective from adulthood	2
Posttraumatic growth among participating and non-participating organ donor families in grief support groups	2
Effectiveness of group therapy for prolonged grief symptoms: A systematic review and meta-analysis	2
Do insecure attachment styles predict prolonged grief symptoms? Significant null findings	2
Embodied existence: Description and meaning of memorial tattoos in mothers experiencing perinatal and neonatal loss	2
Relational closeness– not parasociality– determines the intensity of grief responses to celebrity death	2
The evidentiary potential of art after genocide	2
Mortuary attendants’ experiences of dealing with human dead bodies in Kavango and Zambezi regions: A qualitative study	2
Death and grief in illustrated storybooks: An inventory of Swedish literature for young children	2
Individuals with higher suicide risk showed more anger and disgust during rest	2
Educating death. Children of five generations confronting dead and funerals	2
A qualitative study of factors involved in the helping behaviors of suicide prevention gatekeepers	2
Death and mourning in times of COVID-19. The experience of Zimbabwean migrants in South Africa	2
Social stigma of suicide in South Korea: A cultural perspective	2
Professional bereavement photography for perinatal loss: A mixed-methods study	2
Demographic differences in the type of firearm and location of bodily injury in firearm suicide decedents	2
Mass Death and Funerary Transition: The Meudon Railway Disaster (France, 1842)*	2
Understanding the complexity of suicide loss: PTSD, complex PTSD and prolonged grief disorder following suicide bereavement	2
The indirect effect of generativity on fear of death through ego-integrity holds when controlling for spirituality	2
Coping with suicide bereavement: A focus-group study of adaptation processes over time	2
A 4-month prospective study of the relationship between emotional intelligence and suicide ideation in Spanish adolescents: The mediating role of positive and negative affect	2
Challenges in pastoral care practice in euthanasia: A concept mapping study among Dutch protestant pastors	2
Correction	2
End-of-life care for people experiencing homelessness: A qualitative exploration of barriers and informal networks of care	2
The stories bones tell. Collaboration between forensic teams and victims’ relatives in the interpretation and ritual accompaniment of human remains in Guatemala*	2
Spanish adaptation of the Stillbirth Stigma Scale (SSS)	2
Lifesaving turning points: First-person accounts of recovery after suicide attempt(s)	2
The association of religion with advance care planning	2
Response to Lyon: Oranges, apples and polarizing polemic	2
"Martyrs do not die": Politics and security in Kurdish insurgents’ funerals	2
“It took so much of the humanness away”: Health care professional experiences providing care to dying patients during COVID-19	2
Psychometric properties of the Italian Traumatic Grief Inventory-Self Report Plus (TGI-SR+)	2
Digital mourning: The transformative role of photography in contemporary grief practices	2
The role of adverse childhood experiences in suicide among sexual minority undergraduate students	2
Perspectives on dying in severe and enduring eating disorders (SEEDs): A qualitative study among Dutch mental healthcare providers	2
Religio-cultural facilitators and barriers in decision-making on organ donation: The experiences of families of brain-dead patients in Iran	2
Is COVID-19 loss more associated with prolonged grief disorder than other losses?	2
Companion animal bereavement: Psychometric properties of the Spanish version of the Pet Bereavement Questionnaire	2
“A sign that I am not alone”: A grounded theory-informed qualitative study on spirituality after suicide bereavement	2
Effectiveness of a grief programme for sudden bereavement: A logotherapy approach	2
Network analysis of prolonged grief disorder and anxiety symptoms among bereaved Chinese parents who lost their only child	2
Adverse and benevolent childhood experiences moderate the association between PTSD symptoms and suicidal ideation	2
Navigating the paradox: Strategies utilized by pregnant widows in an attempt to reconcile life and death	2
The experience of children and adolescents in the school setting a few years after losing a parent	2
Reflecting on death: Priorities for living well	2
Misrepresentation: A final response to Bruce and Beuthin on Medical Assistance in Dying	1
MAiD as human connection: Stories and metaphors of physician providers’ existential lived experience	1
Comparison of university students who experienced the death of a parent and those who did not in terms of self-compassion and difficulty in emotion regulation	1