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Grief in Women Religious 26 score on both the original and modified scales. There was no ceiling effect with either the original measure or the modified measure. This indicates no significant difference between the two versions of the scales; therefore, it was decided the original scale would be used. These results are similar to those of O'Kane (19%) who used the original SWB in a study of women religious. Furthermore, at time 1 and time 2, this present study found significant correlations between the TRIG (r = .80, p < .05), the SSQ (r = .79, p < .05), and the SWB (r = .70, p < .05). Procedure Data collection began subsequent to receiving approval from the author's dissertation committee and the Human Subject committee of Loyola College in Maryland. A second time of measurement occurred three months after the first data collection. A list of 12 active women religious congregations and 16 contemplative monasteries of women were obtained from the Official Catholic Directory (2003). All congregations and monasteries obtained from this source were located within the eastern region of the United States. General leadership members of nine active congregations were contacted by phone and a personal interview date was requested. One individual in lieu of a personal interview suggested that e-mail messages be sent to the 17 presidents of the congregation situated throughout the United States. Furthermore, due to scheduling conflicts, two other persons requested that a letter be sent explaining the procedures for this study. Phone messages were left with general leadership members of three other active congregations, but no response was obtained. Several e-mail messages were sent to one of the individuals, but a request for a meeting was not obtained. Therefore, a total of 12 active congregations were contacted.
Grief in Women Religious 27 The superior and/or contact person of 16 contemplative communities were contacted by phone, mail, e-mail or through personal interviews. Due to the small number of participants, names of four additional monasteries were verbally given to the researcher by colleagues and these monasteries were either visited or contacted by phone. Furthermore, 58 monasteries, throughout the United States and Ireland, were located on the internet and they were contacted by e-mail. Therefore, 79 contemplative monasteries were contacted and 48 of them responded. These monasteries were located across the United States. The names and addresses of women religious who had lost a parent, sibling or close friend within the last three months were either mailed to the researcher or the women were personally contacted by their leadership personnel to assess their willingness to participate in this study. Subsequently, the names and contact information of the women willing to participate were either forwarded to the researcher or the participant personally contacted the researcher by e-mail or phone. A packet of materials was mailed to the active and contemplative women religious as distance made it unfeasible to visit each convent. For each eligible contemplative woman religious who resided in the monastery that was visited, a packet of materials was left at the monastery for her. Before the packets were mailed or distributed, identification numbers for coding purposes were placed on each of them. The packets included a cover letter, a consent form, a demographic questionnaire, the Texas Revised Inventory of Grief (Faschingbauer, 1981; see Appendix B), the Social Support Questionnaire (Sarason et al., 1983; see Appendix C), the NEO PI-E (Costa & McCrae, 1992; see Appendix D) and the Spiritual Well-Being Scale (Paloutzian &
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