title: Cross-cultural aspects of bereavement. I: A conceptual framework for comparative analysis.
abstract: This paper reviews some key conceptual questions in the study of cross-cultural aspects of bereavement. Six questions are reviewed in cross-cultural perspective: whether individuals in all societies share the same private experience and public expression of grief; whether the stages of grief occur in the same sequence and at the same rate in all cultures; the nature of the relationship between the individual's private grief and his public mourning; the reactions of children to death, and the reactions of adults to the death of children; the role of religious belief; and the possibility that an ethnic group can experience collective grief in response to uprooting.
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D003643:Death; D004641:Emigration and Immigration; D004644:Emotions / Q000502:physiology; D005006:Ethnicity / Q000523:psychology; D005655:Funeral Rites; D006117:Grief; D006212:Hallucinations / Q000523:psychology; D006801:Humans; D009769:Object Attachment; D012036:Refugees / Q000523:psychology; D012067:Religion; D012922:Social Change; D013997:Time Factors