Pregnancy Loss & Parental Grief PARENTAL GRIEF FOLLOWING PREGNANCY LOSS: AN ART

The literature review reported in the article appeared to thoroughly cover the area of investigation. The sources reviewed spanned a wide time range. The latest source reviewed was an article in press at the time this critiqued article was published. The in press article (Goldbach, et al, in press) dealt with the effects of gestational age and gender on pregnancy loss grief and two of its authors were also two of the authors of this critiqued article. An article one year old at the time the critiqued article was published was also reviewed. This article (Dunn, et al, 1991) dealt with pregnancy loss generally. The authors of the 1991 article were the same as those of the inpress article. Seven additional sources reviewed were two to four years old at the time the critiqued was published. Four of these seven articles had joint authors who were also joint authors of the critiqued article. The seven articles dealt with pregnancy loss grief generally (Borg and Lasker, 1989; Lasker and Toedter, 1990; Polvin, et al, 1989; Toedte

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ion efforts for the study were largely based on this theoretical framework, and, thus, tended to collect data to support the theoretical underpinning of the study. As an example, data collection efforts included joint interviews with female and male partners who had experienced a pregnancy loss. A more appropriate theoretical framework for this study might have been one that considered gender differences in responding to grief related to a number of different life events, as opposed to considering gender differences in responding to a specific life event wherein the gender differences are highly predictable. This alternative theoretical framework would have permitted the researchers to assess relative gender differences in responding to grief in relation to a variety of life events wherein the outcomes were far less predictable. Pregnancy loss would be one of the life events included in such a theoretical framework. The research problem (comparing grief experienced by fathers and mothers subsequent to a pregnancy loss) and hypotheses (described at a later point in this critique) for the study reported in the article did flow naturally from the theoretical framework for the study. The research problem was stated at a
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