Starting Over: A Tentative Theory Exploring the Effects of Past Relationships on Postbereavement Remarried Couples

Family Process

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 47-62

  Brimhall, Andrew Scott ^a   Engblom Deglmann, Michelle Lee ^b  

^a SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Simpson University   (United States)

Author keywords

Bereavement; Couple Interaction; Death; Divorce; Grounded Theory; Remarriage

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BEREAVEMENT; CHILD PARENT RELATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INTERVIEW; MALE; MARRIAGE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; SPOUSE;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; BEREAVEMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MARRIAGE; PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; SPOUSES;

EID: 79952074732     PISSN: 00147370     EISSN: 15455300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1545-5300.2010.01345.x     Document Type: Article

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