TY - JOUR
T1 - Standing in Spaces and Feeling Alright
T2 - The Experience of Bereaved Fathers of Fallen Soldiers in Israel
AU - Weinberg-Kurnik, Galia
AU - Anchoo, Ofra
AU - Leichtentritt, Ronit D.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 American Psychological Association
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - The unique voice of bereaved fathers of fallen soldiers has largely been ignored in Israeli discourse. Using 10 semistructured in-depth interviews, we examined the bereavement experience of Israeli fathers after the loss of a child during their army service. The interviews were analyzed using the hermeneutical phenomenology method. The fathers’ bereavement experiences were characterized by swings between closeness and distance in two main contexts: (a) the father and his social environment and (b) his internal mental experiences. Three themes were identified: (a) the fathers create both distance and closeness to others; (b) closeness and distance within the fathers’ internal world; and (c) the dialectic of the bereavement experience, namely the coexistence of distance and closeness.
AB - The unique voice of bereaved fathers of fallen soldiers has largely been ignored in Israeli discourse. Using 10 semistructured in-depth interviews, we examined the bereavement experience of Israeli fathers after the loss of a child during their army service. The interviews were analyzed using the hermeneutical phenomenology method. The fathers’ bereavement experiences were characterized by swings between closeness and distance in two main contexts: (a) the father and his social environment and (b) his internal mental experiences. Three themes were identified: (a) the fathers create both distance and closeness to others; (b) closeness and distance within the fathers’ internal world; and (c) the dialectic of the bereavement experience, namely the coexistence of distance and closeness.
KW - bereavement experience
KW - fathers
KW - military loss
KW - qualitative interviews
KW - social expectations
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85119627776&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1037/men0000362
DO - 10.1037/men0000362
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AN - SCOPUS:85119627776
SN - 1524-9220
VL - 22
SP - 715
EP - 722
JO - Psychology of Men and Masculinity
JF - Psychology of Men and Masculinity
IS - 4
ER -