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Giggly_Giraffe
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How do men and women approach the death of loved ones differently?
Differences / Similarities men & women experience while grieving
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ClearWater
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I found this link on gender differences with regards to mourning.
goodgriefcenter.com/news/good_grief_newsletter_mar10.pdf
goodgriefcenter.com/news/good_grief_newsletter_mar10.pdf
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sierradepadre
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You are asking a very good question which has a lot of variables to consider. Let me just start out by looking at only one aspect pertaining to grief and scientific research. This is just one tiny sliver in the piece of the whole pie.
Men and women’s brains work differently to begin with. Women has a greater verbal ability than men. Always has been, always will be. That being said, Women are more likely in “general” to verbalize grief more than men but there are always exceptions to the rule.
Sex differences has always been one of my areas of study in which I would not be considered a novice since I taught such things in a college. I am only sharing one small bit of the physiological and information as it pertains to how the brain works. I will add more but I just quickly wanted to start off responding to this thread and will get back to you as soon as I have some time to look over some of my notes.
Second, in general, women tend to look for support with other women and other relatives while men tend to bury themselves more in work but as a result of women obtaining more rights than previously, this is changing. This is just, again a small part of a lot of psychological research.
Other variables would be age, economic status, cultural background, religious background…you get the picture.
I am not at all touching on any religious variables.
I will try to get back to you and try to be as brief as I can.
Sierradepadre
Men and women’s brains work differently to begin with. Women has a greater verbal ability than men. Always has been, always will be. That being said, Women are more likely in “general” to verbalize grief more than men but there are always exceptions to the rule.
Sex differences has always been one of my areas of study in which I would not be considered a novice since I taught such things in a college. I am only sharing one small bit of the physiological and information as it pertains to how the brain works. I will add more but I just quickly wanted to start off responding to this thread and will get back to you as soon as I have some time to look over some of my notes.
Second, in general, women tend to look for support with other women and other relatives while men tend to bury themselves more in work but as a result of women obtaining more rights than previously, this is changing. This is just, again a small part of a lot of psychological research.
Other variables would be age, economic status, cultural background, religious background…you get the picture.
I am not at all touching on any religious variables.
I will try to get back to you and try to be as brief as I can.
Sierradepadre
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sierradepadre
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You are asking a very good question which has a lot of variables to consider. Let me just start out by looking at only one aspect pertaining to grief and scientific research. This is just one tiny sliver in the piece of the whole pie.
Men and women’s brains work differently to begin with. Women has a greater verbal ability than men. Always has been, always will be. That being said, Women are more likely in “general” to verbalize grief more than men but there are always exceptions to the rule.
Sex differences has always been one of my areas of study in which I would not be considered a novice since I taught such things in a college. I am only sharing one small bit of the physiological and information as it pertains to how the brain works. I will add more but I just quickly wanted to start off responding to this thread and will get back to you as soon as I have some time to look over some of my notes.
Second, in general, women tend to look for support with other women and other relatives while men tend to bury themselves more in work but as a result of women obtaining more rights than previously, this is changing. This is just, again a small part of a lot of psychological research.
Other variables would be age, economic status, cultural background, religious background…you get the picture.
I am not at all touching on any religious variables.
I will try to get back to you and try to be as brief as I can.
I just noticed the link that "Clearwater " posted. It does a good job of putting together some general guidelines.
Sierradepadre
Men and women’s brains work differently to begin with. Women has a greater verbal ability than men. Always has been, always will be. That being said, Women are more likely in “general” to verbalize grief more than men but there are always exceptions to the rule.
Sex differences has always been one of my areas of study in which I would not be considered a novice since I taught such things in a college. I am only sharing one small bit of the physiological and information as it pertains to how the brain works. I will add more but I just quickly wanted to start off responding to this thread and will get back to you as soon as I have some time to look over some of my notes.
Second, in general, women tend to look for support with other women and other relatives while men tend to bury themselves more in work but as a result of women obtaining more rights than previously, this is changing. This is just, again a small part of a lot of psychological research.
Other variables would be age, economic status, cultural background, religious background…you get the picture.
I am not at all touching on any religious variables.
I will try to get back to you and try to be as brief as I can.
I just noticed the link that "Clearwater " posted. It does a good job of putting together some general guidelines.
Sierradepadre
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