Presentation
Resilience, Transformation, and Gender: Distress within Students at a Christian Evangelical University.pdf
Association for Death Education and Counseling
(2014)
Abstract
Sex differences in distress variables are common, but recent research suggests exaggeration of these
differences in conservative Christian environments due to polarized gender role expectations. Few studies
have measured distress by relationship to deceased, and fewer still have considered both effects of
relationship and whether the death was traumatic. Incorporation of coping tasks may assist in resilience
and transformation following these types of losses. College students do not like to admit struggle or ask for
help, so health variables may be better indicators of bereavement-related distress than self-report measures
of dealing with grief. This study compares effects of sex, loss type, relationship to deceased, and coping on
distress of students in a Christian Evangelical university.
Keywords
- Resilience,
- Gender,
- Sex,
- Distress,
- College students,
- Christian,
- Evangelical university
Disciplines
Publication Date
2014
Location
Baltimore, MD
Citation Information
Andrea C Walker. "Resilience, Transformation, and Gender: Distress within Students at a Christian Evangelical University.pdf" Association for Death Education and Counseling (2014) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/andrea-walker/20/