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Parental deathParental Death During Adolescence
While extensive research exists on parental loss in childhood and the related psychological interventions, little has been done in the adolescent population. Adolescence…
Parental Death During Childhood and Subsequent School Performance
OBJECTIVES: Parental death during childhood has been linked to increased mortality and mental health problems in adulthood. School failure may be an important mediator…
THE IMPACT OF PARENTAL DEATH ON SCHOOL OUTCOMES: LONGITUDINAL EVIDENCE FROM SOUTH AFRICA
We analyze longitudinal data from a demographic surveillance area (DSA) in KwaZulu-Natal to examine the impact of parental death on children’s outcomes. The results…
Children's adjustment to parental death
Reviews the evidence regarding the effects of parental death on children's acute and long-term psychological adjustment, as well as the clinical literature describing…
Parental death during childhood and adult depression
Parental death during childhood is widely viewed as an event so traumatic that it produces not only immediate grief and despondency but also a predisposition to…
Long-Term Experiencing of Parental Death During Childhood
This qualitative study examined the long-term experience of childhood parental death by exploring how adults (a) retrospectively conceptualize their experiences…
The Impact of Parental Death in Childhood on Sons’ and Daughters’ Status Attainment in Young Adulthood in the Netherlands, 1850–1952
Previous research on the impact of parental loss on labor market outcomes in adulthood has often suffered from low sample sizes. To generate further insights into…
Parental Death and the Adjustment of School-Age Children
Findings on the emotional impact of parental death for dependent children have not been consistent due to serious methodological limitations. The Child Bereavement…
Mortality after Parental Death in Childhood: A Nationwide Cohort Study from Three Nordic Countries
Background Bereavement by spousal death and child death in adulthood has been shown to lead to an increased risk of mortality. Maternal death in infancy or parental…
Parental death in childhood and risk of adult depressive disorders
The authors review the evidence that parental death in childhood predisposes to depressive disorders in later life. The findings in general are quite inconsistent;…
Examining longer-term effects of parental death in adolescents and young adults: Evidence from the National Longitudinal Survey of Adolescent to Adult Health
Using longitudinal data spanning a 7-year period, we investigated the behavioral and psycho-social effects resulting from a parent’s death during early childhood…
Parental death in childhood and pathways to increased mortality across the life course in Stockholm, Sweden: A cohort study
Background: Previous studies have shown that the experience of parental death during childhood is associated with increased mortality risk. However, few studies…
Re-Examining the Long-Term Effects of Experiencing Parental Death in Childhood on Adult Psychopathology
This study examined whether the experience of the death of a parent in childhood increases risk for adult psychopathology. Participants consisted of 3481 men and…
A systematic review on the relationship between childhood exposure to external cause parental death, including suicide, on subsequent suicidal behaviour
Background: Exposure to parental death in childhood has been associated with offspring suicide risk, although the strength of this association is unclear. The primary…
Risks of major mental disorders after parental death in children, adolescents, and young adults and the role of premorbid mental comorbidities: a population-based cohort study
Previous studies have shown an association between early parental death and the risk of subsequent major mental disorders (MMDs) among the bereaved children and…
Parental death in childhood and self-inflicted injuries in young adults-a national cohort study from Sweden
Previous studies have shown that parental death influences health and mortality in bereaved offspring. To date, few studies have examined whether exposure to parental…
Impact of expected parental death on the health of adolescent and young adult children: A systematic review of the literature
Background:Few studies of health impacts of parental death focus on the developmental stage of adolescence and young adulthood and in particular, expected parental…
The Impact of Parental Death on Middle Aged Children
There has been a paucity of literature dealing with the impact of the death of a parent upon a middle-aged child, and a number of reasons for this are explored.…
Childhood Parental Loss and Adult Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal Function
Background: Several decades of research link childhood parental loss with risk for major depression and other forms of psychopathology. A large body of preclinical…
The impact of parental death on the timing of first marriage: Evolutionary versus social explanations
BACKGROUND This article examines the impact of parental death in childhood, adolescence, and adulthood on male and female age at marriage in the Netherlands in…
Parental Divorce or Death During Childhood and Adolescence and Its Association With Mental Health
Despite the severity of the loss of a parent and the frequency of parental divorce, few studies compared their impact on mental health in the general adult population.…
The effect of orphan-hood on the nutritional and educational status of children in Zambia
The death of a parent occasion's severe trauma on a child. The loss a parent causes emotional distress and deprives the orphaned child of nurturing, values, information…