How Young Adults Experience Grief Two or More Years Following the Death of a Spouse: A Constructivist Grounded Theory Study
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Abstract
Grief in response to the death of a loved one is a universal experience that all individuals will encounter at some point in their lives. Young widows and widowers, age 45 and under, face unique challenges in their grieving process two or more years after the death of their spouse. This topic and population, however, remain understudied. Thus, an integrative review was completed between March 2024 and April 2024 to explore what is known about the grieving experience of young widows and widowers in the later years of their grief. Through analysis of six studies using a thematic analysis approach, four themes were discovered: Losing More Than a Spouse, Embracing Personal Change and Growth, Maintaining a Lasting Relationship, and Enduring Grief. The findings of the integrative review informed the completion of the constructivist grounded theory research described herein. The purpose of this research was to explore the experiences and processes of grief of young widows and widowers whose spouse had died two or more years prior to participating in the study. Twelve participants from three Canadian provinces enrolled in the study. The substantive, emerging grounded theory titled, Moving Forward With Grief was developed based on the findings. Five multi-dimensional and non-linear subprocesses emerged: Living with Intention, Changing of Self, Understanding Grief is a Lifelong Experience, Making Space for Grief, and Maintaining a Connection. Findings from this study facilitate a greater understanding of how young widows experience their grief and adapt their grief into their new lives. This emerging theory will inform nursing practice, research, and education by providing a client-centered understanding of the longevity of grief, as well as presenting actionable ways through which the participants in this study have been able to move forward in their lives with their grief.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.013 | 0.012 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.009 | 0.006 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".