This qualitative study examined the long-term experience of childhood parental death by exploring how adults (a) retrospectively conceptualize their experiences of childhood parental death and (b) currently experience their parent’s death. Analysis of interviews with 12 adults who experienced parental death as children identified six themes centered on the impact of parental death circumstances, their initial reactions, other losses, long-term grief triggers, and relationships with the deceased parent, surviving parent, and other family members on their grieving process. Themes indicated the grief experience was ongoing and connected to attachment needs.

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童年时期父母死亡的长期经历：定性分析

这项定性研究通过探索成年人如何（a）回顾性地概念化他们童年父母死亡的经历和（b）目前经历他们父母的死亡，来检验童年父母死亡的长期经历。对 12 名在儿童时期经历过父母死亡的成年人的访谈分析确定了六个主题，这些主题集中在父母死亡情况的影响、他们的最初反应、其他损失、长期悲伤触发因素以及与已故父母、尚存父母和其他家庭的关系成员在他们的悲痛过程中。主题表明悲伤的经历是持续的，并且与依恋需求有关。