Yas Sürecine İlişkin Sosyal Temsiller Üzerine Niteliksel Bir Çalışma
A Qualitative Research on the Social Representations of Grief Process

Summary/Abstract: Social representations indicate the ways to know the things and to share this knowledge with others. This research aims to understand the social representations of grief by conducting two studies. In the first study, 171 entries from frequently used online social dictionaries (Ekşi Sözlük, Uludağ Sözlük, and Instela), which were written under the title of “grief”, were analyzed and meaningful thematic units were formed. In the second study, by using an online data collection platform, participants were asked to write their ideas on grief. As in the first study, thematic units were formed from the responses of 93 participants. The results of two studies indicated seven thematic units namely “Emotional Responses in Grief Process”, “Descriptive Statements for Grief”, “Cognitive Responses in Grief Process”, “Behavioral Responses in Grief Process”, “Psychopathological Responses in Grief Process”, “Collective Grief”, and “Positive Attributes of Grief”. Additionally, only in the first study, the thematic unit “Expression of Grief through Art” was observed. Thus far, studies on grief were generally based on interviews. Accordingly, the current study differentiates from the other studies considering the data collection tools, which are the use of online social dictionaries and asking a direct question to participants on grief. Besides, this study contributes to the literature since there is no study conducted in Turkey on the social representations of grief.

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