Current Research on Widowhood: Devastation and Human Resilience

Current research on widowhood: devastation and human resilience.

A s of 2010, there were more than 14 million widowed persons in the U.s. population—nearly 3 million men and well more than 11 million women (U.s. Bureau of the Census, 2012, Table 57). About 13% of men and 40% of women aged 65 and older, and 57% of women aged 75 and older, are widows. This is, of course, just a single snapshot in time; nearly half of the population necessarily experience widow...

Prospective patterns of resilience and maladjustment during widowhood.

Using prospective longitudinal data on an older sample beginning prior to the death of a spouse, G. A. Bonanno et al. (2002) distinguished 5 unique trajectories of bereavement outcome: common grief, chronic grief, chronic depression, depression followed by improvement, and resilience. These trajectories having been identified, the aims of the current study were to examine differences in how res...

Community Resilience Research: Current Approaches, Challenges and Opportunities

What can emergency planners learn from research on human resilience?

Resilience is a concept that is widely used in emergency planning and preparedness activities (e.g. www.ukresilience.gov.uk). Working definitions of resilience in infrastructure, systems and communities exist for the purposes establishing benchmarks for effective emergency response, however it is not clear to what extent these initiatives are informed by the broad and well-established research ...

Current Trends in Research on Mobile Phones in Language Learning

This study aimed at examining the major mobile wireless technologies, that is,mobile phones and the possibilities associated with them, currently in use in theeducational domains, with an emphasis on language teaching and learning practices.Accordingly, some of the most typical studies using different functions of mobilephones such as e-mail, multimedia capabilities, Wireless Application Protoc...