Abstract
The present study aims at acknowledging the extent of social coping among bereaved parents who have lost an offspring due to sudden death in the West Bank and Jerusalem and its relation with the level of parents’ religiosity and the circumstances of the offspring’s death. The accumulative approach, with its both parts the descriptive and the deductive, has been used for this study and the sample consist of 298 mothers and fathers who lost their offspring due to sudden death. They have all agreed to take part in this study. The sample members have come from different areas in Jerusalem; Bethlehem; Hebron; Ramallah; Nablus; and Jericho, in addition to villages and camps in the West Bank and Jerusalem. A questionnaire has been especially designed for the purpose of this study. The results indicate that there are significant differences among the parents’ cooping in terms of religiosity. For as, the parents who were more religious, were also more accepting compared to the parents who were less religious. Moreover, the results also indicate that the parents who lost an offspring due to sudden death such as martyrdom, drowning, and killing were less accepting and coping compared to the parents who have lost an offspring to illness and other causes.
Recommended Citation
Wattad, Salah Eldin and Mustafa, Rawan
(2015)
"The Extent of the Social Coping of Bereaved Parents Who Lost an Offspring Due to Sudden Death in the West Bank and Jerusalem in Relation to the Extent of Their Religiosity and the Death Circumstances .,"
An-Najah University Journal for Research - B (Humanities): Vol. 29:
Iss.
1, Article 6.
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https://digitalcommons.aaru.edu.jo/anujr_b/vol29/iss1/6