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The effect of the content of suicide notes on grief reactions

✍ Scribed by Dr. Kjell Erik Rudestam; Paul Agnelli

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1987
Tongue
English
Weight
500 KB
Volume
43
Category
Article
ISSN
0021-9762

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✦ Synopsis

The present study focused on emotional reactions of suicide survivor-victims to the content of suicide notes. Using an analogue methodology, married subjects ( N = 48) recorded their emotional responses to four types of simulated suicide notes (other-blaming, incongruent, self-blaming, and neutral) presumed left for them by their mates. There were significant differences in reported distress dependent upon type of note. Blame and guilt were found to play primary roles in the grief reactions of the survivor-victims.

This study was supported by a grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Requests for reprints and further information should be addressed to: Dr. Kjell Rudestam, The Fielding (#45 1-853398).

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