Loss and Meaning

By Christopher G. Davis, Susan Nolen-Hoeksema. 2001

140 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Applied Psychology, Clinical Psychology, General Health Professions

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/9f0ca3707fdc082861fcf5cf62835e096d8a4a2a

How researchers see this paper

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In Applied Psychology

1. Maureen P. Keeley
2. Michael Inzlicht
3. T. Proulx
4. Joshua Aronson

In Clinical Psychology

1. Maureen P. Keeley
2. Michael Inzlicht
3. T. Proulx

In General Health Professions

1. Maureen P. Keeley
2. Michael Inzlicht
3. T. Proulx

Citations in the corpus

• The Five “A”s of Meaning Maintenance: Finding Meaning in the Theories of Sense-Making (2012, background): “…They may work to assimilate the event such that it agrees with their prior assumptions (e.g., the loss of our child must have served some purpose; Davis & Nolen-Hoeksema, 2001) or accommodate their assumptions to account for the event (e.g., sometimes tragedies strike us when we do not deserve…”
• TARGET ARTICLE: "Posttraumatic Growth: Conceptual Foundations and Empirical Evidence" (2004, unknown): “Therefore, we emphasize in our work that posttraumatic growth is a consequence of attempts to reestablish some useful, basic cognitive guides for living, rather than a search for meaning or an attempt to manage the terror of mortality (Davis & Nolen-Hoeksema, 2001).”
• `Turning toward death together': The functions of messages during final conversations in close relationships (2007, background): “For example, women in the US (e.g., wives, mothers, daughters, and/or daughters-in-law) are still the primary caretakers of the terminally ill (Davis & Nolen-Hoeksema, 2001), thus providing women with an opportunity to engage more frequently in FCs.”