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Grief in Women Religious 28 Ellison, 1982; see Appendix E). The measures were arranged in a counterbalanced order. The cover letter described the purpose and procedure of the study (see Appendix F). It also provided information on confidentiality, voluntary participation, risks and benefits involved in participation, and the person to contact if a question arose. The cover letter also indicated that a doctoral psychology student at Loyola College in Maryland conducted the study. Additionally, the cover letter informed the participants that there was a 3-month follow-up study to assess the impact of social support and spirituality on the grief process in women religious. The demographic questionnaire included questions regarding age, years in religious life, level of education, ethnicity, and type of work (see Appendix G). Voluntary consent to participate in the study was shown by returning the consent form (see Appendix H). In order to perform the follow-up study and to maintain confidentiality, participants were asked to provide the researcher with contact information on a separate sheet of paper (see Appendix I). The number of packets distributed totaled 114 (Active = 62; Contemplative = 52), and the number of responses to time 1 totaled 93 (Active = 53; Contemplative = 40). Upon return of the questionnaires, thank you letters were mailed to each participant with a reminder of the follow-up study (see Appendix J). Moreover, postcard or e-mail reminders were mailed to those who did not respond. Three months after the participant returned the first packet of questionnaires, packets containing the Texas Revised Inventory of Grief, the Social Support Questionnaire, the Spiritual Well- Being Scale, a consent form and a cover letter were mailed again to the participants. The cover letter restated the purpose and procedure of the study. In addition, it again
Grief in Women Religious 29 explained confidentiality, voluntary participation, the risks and benefits involved in participation, and the person to contact if a question arises. Voluntary consent to participate in the study was indicated by the return of the consent form. The number of replies to time 2 totaled 79 (Active = 44; Contemplative = 35). After the follow-up packets were returned, a thank you letter (see Appendix K) and a copy of the article, Grief’s Journey, published by the Hospice of Baltimore (2002) were mailed to the participants. Additionally, postcard or e-mail reminders were sent to those participants who did not respond. The participants who requested the results were mailed a summary of the findings. For time 1, due to the length of time that elapsed between mailing and returning the packets of questionnaires, the time since death was extended, from the original plan of three months, to include those individuals who experienced a loss within the past seven months. Of the 93 respondents, 11 individuals were eliminated because the time since death was reported as greater than seven months. See Table 2 for summary of time since death and relation to the deceased. Design and Analyses This study was passive observational and longitudinal. The variables investigated were as follows: type of religious life (active/contemplative), symptoms of grief, social support, extroversion and spirituality. The criterion variable was grief over time which was looked at by examining time 2 grief after controlling for time 1 grief. The predictor variables were grief at time 1, social support, spirituality, women religious lifestyle and extraversion. A multiple regression was used to test the relation between these variables.
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