Sample of Conceptualization of Interview Guide

Interview Guide Conceptualization

Author Dela Cruz, Russelle Ane A
Key players Grieving students in state university
Layer of Death-related loss
experience
Key focus What are the lived experiences of the grieving students?
Design Phenomenology (IPA)
Concept/ Definition References A priori codes Guide Questions
Layer of
Human
Experience
death- Grief is a Johnsen, I., Grief is a Could you describe
related loss complicated Tømmeraas, personal your own reaction
and grief equalizer and a A.M. reaction that upon knowing that
experience personal reaction Attachment and difficult to your loved one had
to loss. Losing a grief in young explain. passed away?
loved one is a adults after the
universal loss of a close a. How did you
experience, but friend: a feel?
fear keeps grief qualitative b. What
quiet and study. BMC thoughts do
misunderstood. Psychol 10, 10 you have?
(2022). c. What did you
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Petersen A.,
Jacobsen M. H.
(2018). Grief:
The painfulness Grief is
of permanent culturally and
Grief is a multi- human individually When you lost your
faceted and multi- absence. In influenced. loved one, what
layered, socio- Emotions, family tradition or
culturally shaped everyday life practice did you
emotion and sociology follow?
experienced (pp. 191–208).
by people in Routledge.
response to wide
array of negative

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emotional and
physical
experiences

Grief can be Stroebe, M. Grief involve Could you describe

understood as (2018). The complex how your grief
complex poetry of grief: experiences. affects you
experiences of beyond physically,
“psychological, scientific emotionally, and
behavioral, social, portrayal. socially?
and physical OMEGA – J.
reactions following Death Dying 78,
the death of a 67–96. doi:
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2818792706

Grief is a primarily VAROL, A.,

emotional ALBAYRAK- Grief affects
response to loss, KAYMAK, D., the mind and
particularly to the AKMEHMET- body.
loss of ŞEKERLER, S.,
someone with & A. MARKELL,
whom the M. (2021,
individual has an September 15).
emotional Attachment Grief is
connection. It is Patterns, natural and
both a common Mourning complicate.
humane reaction Reactions, and
and a complex Dysfunctional
syndrome. Grief is Romantic
like an illness with Relationship
various negative Beliefs among
physical Young Adults
(physiological- with and without
somatic) and Early Parental
psychological Loss. Boğaziçi
(social-behavioral, Üniversitesi
cognitive) Eğitim Dergisi,
manifestations 38(1), 43–69.

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Williams,
The death of a Honey, Grief can What changes did
loved one is a "Posttraumatic have far- you go through after
painful, but Growth in the reaching losing a loved one?
universal human Context of Grief: effects that
experience. Testing the overlap.
Despite its Mindfulness-to-
universality, the Meaning
impact of a Theory" (2020).
significant loss on Clinical
an individual can Psychology
have profound Dissertations.
effects which 64.
follow differing but https://digitalco
overlapping mmons.spu.edu
trajectories. /cpy_etd/64 Grief is a
strong
grief is defined emotion that
by the phrases “a Mayo affects
strong emotion,” a Foundation for everyone.
“natural reaction to Medical
loss,” and “both, a Education and
universal and Research.
personal (2021). What is
experience” grief? Mayo
(MFMER, 2021). ClinicVisitor
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grief

Insights and Self-reflection and Gall, Self-reflection How do you

reflections moving forward is T.L,Henneberry, and moving perceive the
on the also part of the J.,& Eyre, forward changes that have
death- way to find Mellisa (2014). occurred since the
related loss meaning after the Perspectives on loss of a loved one?
experience loss. the needs of
individuals
bereaved by

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 suicide. Death
Studies, 38,
430-437 How do you make
sense of what you're
For Stuhr, Lindsey, Finding a going through?
some, meaning "Meaning cause to give
making after a loss Making In Grief
could be finding a Counseling"
cause to give to, (2021).
for example, Counselor
donating to Education
an organization Capstones. 148.
that would have https://openriver What insights and
meant something .winona.edu/cou thoughts have you
to the individual or nseloreducation had as a result of
creating a capstones/148 your loss?
scholarship in
memory of the
person. Others
may decide to Is there anything
plant a tree, share you'd like to say to
stories of the other young people
person with others who have lost
or build park someone important
benches with an in their lives?
engraved message
of remembrance.

Meaning making is Currier, J, M., Grief

a Holland, J.& reflections
subjective process, Neimeyer, R. are personal.
determined by the (2006). Sense-
grieving individual, making, grief,
as loss is and the
experienced experience of
differently by violent loss:
each person. toward a
mediational
Sense-making model. Death Sense-
pertains to the Studies. making aids
ability of the https://pubmed. grief.
person ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
experiencing the /16610156/

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loss to understand
it Flesner, J.
and, in turn, (2013). A shift in
continue the the conceptual
process of understanding
grieving. In other of grief: using
words, the meaning-
individual grieving oriented
is able to therapies with
construct what the bereaved
loss means to clients.
them and, in doing American
so, is able to make Counseling
meaning of it Association. 1-
13.

Meaning making in Balk, D. (2011).

response to loss Adolescent Grief can
can be said to development lead to self-
include the ideas and discovery and
of bereavement: identity
sense making, An introduction. change.
benefit finding and Prevention
identity change” Researcher,
18(3), 3-9.
Many
students after
experiencing grief View the
view the world as world as
unpredictable and unpredictable
recognize the
“salience of being
able to rely on Perspective
someone else and on counting
others’ being able on others and
to count on being
him/her” (Balk, counted on
2011).

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 Experiencing the Tan, J., &
Implications death of someone Andriessen, K. How do your
of insights close potentially (2021, February insights and
or impacts an 16). The Impacts an reflections influen
reflections individual’s life Experiences of individual's ce how you deal
on the negatively and/or Grief and Personal life positively with your loss?
death- positively. Growth in and/or
related loss Implications of the University negatively.
experience loss can span Students: A
across the Qualitative Study. How do your
bereaved person’s PubMed Central Impact on insights affect
social and (PMC). social and how you see the
personal outlook https://doi.org/10.3 personal world and
on life. 390/ijerph1804189 outlook. yourself?
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Grieving Flesner, J. (2013).

individuals A shift in the
experiencing post- conceptual Facilitation of
traumatic growth understanding of post-
express many grief: using traumatic
identity changes meaning-oriented growth.
including, feeling therapies with
more resilient, bereaved clients. Leads to
having American identity
more Counseling changes,
awareness…and Association. 1-13. including
having more feeling more
empathy for Cox, B. E., Dean, resilient,
others” J. G., & Kowalski, aware, and
R. (2015). Hidden empathetic
trauma, quiet
drama: The
Bereavement prominence and
impacts “social consequence of Influence on
relationships as complicated grief social
outsiders to the among college relationships
grief become students.
noticeably Journal of College
uncomfortable Student
when around the Development, 56
bereaved” (Balk, (3), 280-285
1999, p. 486).

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Most of the time
students
who are grieving
turn to classmates, Help seeking
roommates, and behavior
friends in the through peer
search for support support.
and
understanding
(Cox, Dean, &
Kowalski, 2015).

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