Abstract

Individuals who cannot make sense of a significant death are more likely to experience bereavement complications than those who are able to reconcile their loss with existing or newly-developed ways of understanding the world. Digital Storytelling, a multi-media narrative technique, has been identified as a potential facilitator of meaning-making processes. In this secondary qualitative analysis, researchers described the meaning-making processes evident in bereaved individuals’ (N = 14) personally-created digital stories, identifying sense making, benefit finding, continuing bonds, shifting identity, and addressing unfinished business. Findings support prior research and enrich emerging understandings of arts-based interventions as tools to facilitate and communicate meaning-making processes.

摘要

与那些能够用现有的或新开发的理解世界的方法来协调自己的损失的人相比，那些无法理解重大死亡的人更容易遭受丧亲并发症。数字叙事，一种多媒体叙事技术，已经被认为是意义形成过程的潜在促进者。在这种第二次定性分析中，研究人员描述了在丧失亲人的个人（N  = 14）个人创建的数字故事，识别意义，发现利益，持续联系，转移身份以及处理未完成的业务中显而易见的意义形成过程。研究结果支持先前的研究，并丰富了对基于艺术的干预的新兴理解，将其作为促进和交流意义形成过程的工具。