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Grief in Women Religious 46 impact that the loss of a member has on a bereaved contemplative woman religious may be significantly greater than if they had lived in a different type of community. Furthermore, when a contemplative woman religious experiences the death of someone close to her, the physical separation from family and friends that the contemplative life requires and the reduced number of outlets that this lifestyles permits may intensify her grief symptoms. These restrictions may hinder contemplative women religious from displaying sufficient outward expressions of grief, participating actively in bereavement rituals, or connecting adequately with family or friends who are also grieving. In addition, the type of death (e.g., sudden, slow, tragedy) may have an impact on the level of grief symptoms endorsed by both active and contemplative women religious. Moreover, if an individual cared for the deceased during their last illness, this may also have influenced the degree of grief symptoms reported. Limitations of the Study. There are several limitations of this study. First, the size of the sample, especially the small number of contemplative women religious, reduced the power of the study. There are approximately 69,963 women religious (active and contemplative) in the United States (Kenedy, 2005). Therefore, education on the importance of grief research in this population may persuade greater participation in future research. In addition, while the SSQ and SWB are reliable and valid measures in the general population, they may not be the best measures to use with this population. Several participants reported that the SSQ was confusing, repetitive, and time consuming. Therefore, the participants may have inaccurately reported their responses. Moreover, as discussed earlier, there was a ceiling effect with the SWB in this population despite pre-
Grief in Women Religious 47 emptive pilot study designed to check for this concern. This may suggest a need to develop measures that are more sensitive to this population. Furthermore, closeness and relation to the deceased were not factored into the analyses. As previously discussed the active women religious were significantly closer to the deceased and also reported the loss of more immediate family members than did the contemplative group who reported more losses of community members. Therefore, control of these variables may be important factors to consider in future research with this population. An additional, limitation of this study is that the sample consisted mainly of European Americans. According to Mary Bendyna, RSM, Executive Director of the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate, there is no data on the background of women religious in the United States (M. Bendyna, personal communication, September 19, 2004). Therefore, it is difficult to know if the proportional race and ethnicity reported in this sample is representative of women religious. It may be interesting for future research to explore the existence of cultural differences in the grief process of women religious and generally beneficial to have richer demographic information on this population. Implications for Future Research. More research on grief in women religious is needed to examine the impact of spirituality and social support on grief symptoms in active and contemplative women religious. In this regard, future research may benefit from using other social support and spirituality measures that are more appropriate for this population. Furthermore, the present findings suggest that future research also may benefit from examining the variables in separate groups (active and contemplative) rather than together. In this study, the main effect of lifestyle was found to be significant. This
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