Online Grief Support Communities

Hartig, Jeanne; Viola, Judah J.

doi:10.1177/0030222815575698

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“…Thus, van der Houwen et al (2010, p. 1524) conclude that, ‘Using online mutual bereavement support did not predict changes in mental health over time’, that is, neither in relation to grief, depressive symptoms, emotional loneliness, or positive mood (van der Houwen et al, 2010). These findings contrast with the results from the present study where participants reported feeling less lonely and results from an earlier study in which individuals experienced a lowering of psychological distress (Hartig & Viola, 2016) as a result of joining an online grief support network.…”

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Is Online Peer Support Helpful in Widowhood? The Lived Experiences of Young Parents

Holmgren

2022

Illness, Crisis & Loss

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With the technological development in general, grief support has now gained a foothold on the internet with a huge variety of offers for bereaved individuals. However, researchers disagree whether this is mainly helpful or unhelpful in grief. The aim of this article was to examine how spousally bereaved individuals with dependent children had experienced the use of an online peer support group following bereavement. To the majority of respondents (83%, n = 70) the group had been immensely helpful. Thematic analysis of participant responses to open-ended questions resulted in three different themes: Identification, Good advice, and Changes in group use over time. The study underlines a need for a renewed focus on how we organize the support for parentally bereaved families in Denmark, and in particular, how the access to information and sources of support following a loss are made available across the board. Finally, the results testify to the fact that online peer support in grief is a means of seeking support in its own right.

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Is Online Peer Support Helpful in Widowhood? The Lived Experiences of Young Parents

Holmgren

2022

Illness, Crisis & Loss

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“…Online forums allow validation of the grief, psychosocial support, and an opportunity for people to tell their stories (D€ oveling, 2017;Swartwood et al, 2011). Research has established the importance of virtual communities in supporting those who are bereaved though evidence for the therapeutic benefits of online engagement is sometimes contradictory (Hartig & Viola, 2016;van der Houwen et al, 2010). To our knowledge, previous studies have not yet compared the similarities or differences in the posts relating to human, as opposed to pet bereavement.…”

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Expressions of Grief in Online Discussion Forums—Linguistic Similarities and Differences in Pet and Human Bereavement

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We compared online discussion forum posts related to pet loss to those related to human bereavement. Posts ( N = 401) were analyzed using the Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count software for frequencies of word use relevant to bereavement. Words related to anger, sadness, and negative emotions were used at similar frequencies for all grief. Sibling loss was associated with using first person pronouns at higher frequencies, and positive emotion words at lower frequencies than other categories of loss. There were some similarities in partners and pets in the word use related to friends and social connectedness. Words related to religion were highest when writing about losing a child and lowest when losing a pet. Our results highlight the similarities in the vocabulary in pet and human bereavement. Findings demonstrate the importance of online discussion forums for understanding the process of grief and specific relationship types.

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“…Memory studies on computer-mediated communication are generally focused on common interests. These broad interests find their reflection in online communities, especially around the concept of sociability (Matzat 2010, Preece 2000, Gowricharn 2015; supporting health, grief, trauma, and education (Gibbs Kim and Ki 2016, Hartig and Viola 2015, Shrivastava 1999, Arthur 2009). However, there have been few studies investigating how these communities come and stay together from the very beginning.…”

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Online Gruplarda İletişimsel Bellek: Aracılı ve Müşterek Bilgi

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2019

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Online social networks enable the creation of groups within a wide variety of topics. Social network sites, like Facebook, offer options for users to create groups or to join existing groups for any topic they are interested in. The aim of this study is to investigate the function of the communicative memory, accepted in the literature as a notion providing continuity of communication, in online groups. In-depth interviews are conducted with seven participants who are members of the same Facebook group in the study in order to investigate and discuss the parameters of communicative memory, its role in-group communication and its effect on group solidarity in the online groups. The data obtained from the interviews are analyzed in the context of communicative memory. In the light of data and evaluations, it is concluded that each of the posts shared in Facebook groups is cumulatively generating their own collective knowledge; it can be said that communicative memory supports this commonness and provides the transmission of fragmented information. ÖzÇevrimiçi sosyal ağlar, çok çeşitli konular çerçevesinde gruplar kurmaya olanak sağlamaktadır. Özellikle Facebook gibi sosyal ağ siteleri, ilgilendikleri herhangi bir konu ile ilgili kullanıcılarına grup kurma veya var olan gruplara katılma seçeneklerini sunar. Bu çalışmanın amacı, literatürde iletişimin sürekliliğini sağlayan bir nosyon olarak kabul edilen iletişimsel belleğin, online gruplardaki işlevinin araştırılmasıdır. İletişimsel belleği tanımlayan parametrelerin online grup içerisindeki varlığını, grup içi iletişimdeki rolünü ve grubun birliği üzerindeki etkisini araştırmaya ve tartışmaya yönelik olan bu çalışmada, aynı Facebook grubuna üye olan yedi katılımcıyla derinlemesine görüşmeler yapılmıştır. Görüşmelerden elde edilen veriler iletişimsel bellek ekseninde analiz edilerek tartışılmıştır. Veriler ve değerlendirmeler ışığında sonuç olarak, Facebook gruplarında paylaşılan her bir gönderinin kendi müşterek bilgisini birikimli olarak ürettiği; iletişimsel belleğin bu müşterekliği desteklediği ve parçalı olan bilgilerin aktarılmasını sağladığı söylenebilir.

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Online Grief Support Communities

Cited by 19 publications

References 55 publications

Is Online Peer Support Helpful in Widowhood? The Lived Experiences of Young Parents

Is Online Peer Support Helpful in Widowhood? The Lived Experiences of Young Parents

Expressions of Grief in Online Discussion Forums—Linguistic Similarities and Differences in Pet and Human Bereavement

Online Gruplarda İletişimsel Bellek: Aracılı ve Müşterek Bilgi

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