Many college students experience the death of someone close to them and could be at risk
for complicated grieving. Their primary sources of support may be unavailable as family …

The article discusses the experience of bereavement and grief in young adult college
students. Topics mention including the statistics about the causes of death, different stages …

An examination of “digital coping” involving the use of communication technologies,
particularly social media, in responding to illness. Communication technologies have …

Death and funeral practices are a constant presence in many Aboriginal Australians' lives—
research in some communities found they are eight times more likely to have attended a …

From a media psychology perspective, an important feature of digital media are the “bottom-
up” and “top-down” affective experiences that digital media trigger in their users. Emotions …

Social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr provide users a
metaphorical space to share their feelings and experiences with others, including on the …

This exploratory study drew upon the social compensation/social enhancement hypotheses
and weak tie network theory to predict what kind of people supplement offline coping …

This article offers a conceptual framework of Facebook's sub-platforms: Profiles, Groups, and
Pages. We demonstrate the crucially different affordances that these sub-platforms possess …

Most individuals have few close friends, leading to potential isolation after a friend's death.
Do social networks heal to fill the space left by the loss? We conduct such a study of self …

Prolong Grief Disorder (PGD) is a condition in which mourners are stuck in the grief process
for a prolonged period and continue to suffer from an intense, mal-adaptive level of grief …