Death Studies

Papers
(The TQCC of Death Studies is 3. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
ArticleCitations
Psycholinguistic, Stroop, and self-report measurements of death anxiety: A study of convergent validity56
Introduction of the French version of the Multidimensional Orientation Toward Dying and Death Inventory (MODDI-F/fre)55
Social disabling: A qualitative study of interpersonal interaction patterns of shiduers in China37
Coping and grief symptoms after parental loss in adolescence - a nationwide follow-up study26
Correlations between the euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide rates and the non-assisted suicide rates at the municipal level in the Netherlands20
Violence and suicide risk behavior in a nationally representative sample of youth aged 12-17: What does it mean to be at-risk?19
“Who is going to take care of these grandkids if I go?”: End-of-life planning by caregivers in grandparent-headed households19
A poetry of grief18
Aesthetic practices in bereavement18
Exploring the stigma of suicide in Malaysia: Lived experience perspectives17
Mothers’ views on death education for children aged 4–617
End-of-life care volunteers’ initial motivational profile and their death anxiety: A latent profile analysis15
Balancing roles: Teaching staff’s dilemma in supporting bereaved college students14
Supporting palliative patients on their journey14
Mourning rituals impact grief outcomes in East and Southeast Asia: A mixed-methods review14
Death attitudes and Chinese college students’ mental health: A latent profile analysis12
“Mum, when we die, what do you think happens?” A qualitative study of views on death education among Spanish families12
Polish firefighters’ attitudes toward death12
Grief Coach : Feasibility and acceptability of a text message program for bereavement support among grievers in the United Kingdom12
The gift of peer understanding and suicide bereavement support groups: A qualitative study12
Age does matter for hospice care: Health care providers’ attitudes toward hospice care in Binzhou, China11
Community-based death preparation and education: A scoping review11
An online grief intervention to improve well-being and reduce clinical symptoms: a randomized controlled trial11
Police officers’ experiences of posttraumatic stress and loss after a colleague’s suicide: A qualitative study11
Primary intervention promoting quality of life in bereaved individuals: A pilot study10
Transforming funeral practices: Rituality and necropower in mass death situations10
The impact of heteropatriarchy and support on grief in sexual minorities: A qualitative study10
Readiness of a U.S. Black community to address suicide10
Grief, mourning, and the body: Ritual attention to the death of victims of the dictatorship in Chile*10
Continuing bonds or ongoing attachments? Exploring the distinction9
Shared death experience or shared beliefs?9
The association between continuing bonds and indicators of mental health and coping in bereaved university students9
Relationship between lifestyle changes, psychological well-being, and grief impairment in elderly after death of spouse9
Frequency of suicidal ideation inventory: A reliability generalization meta-analysis9
Applying attachment theory to grief therapy through the therapeutic relationship9
Factors associated with grief in informal carers of people living with Motor Neuron Disease: A mixed methods systematic review8
Thoughts and emotions evoked by thinking about own death: American versus Japanese undergraduates8
Grief trajectories among bereaved parents after the 2011 Utøya terror attack: A qualitative analysis8
Windmills and pediatric palliative care8
Older bereaved adults experiences navigating daily life without their loved one: A qualitative study8
Turkish version of the Pet Bereavement Questionnaire: Validity, reliability and psychometric properties8
The phenomenon of bereavement anniversary reactions: An integrative systematic review8
Bound by society: An exploratory study of pet attachment and social constraints in pet bereavement among a Turkish sample8
“Am I normal? Is this normal?”: Supporting a community approach to grief8
Unity strengthens and inhibits development: A focus group interview with volunteer adults in support programs for bereaved children and their family8
Survivors’ perspectives on saying goodbye: Implications for end-of-life engagement across the lifespan and grieving process8
Death before birth: An encounter between Prenatal Pedagogy and the Pedagogy of Death7
To ventilate or not to ventilate: A qualitative analysis of physicians’ experience during the first and second waves of the COVID-19 pandemic7
Attachment styles, continuing bonds, and grief following companion animal death7
How to prevent suicidal behavior and non-suicidal self-injury? An analysis of adolescent typologies7
Cultural differences on baby loss experiences: A comparison of the US and New Zealand7
Navigating mortality: A multidisciplinary approach to the epistemology and practice of death education7
Reflecting on the concept of death: A qualitative investigation of the experiences among early childhood education teachers7
A conceptual review of a land-informed Native American Death Pedagogy: Overcoming settler colonialism and the Western Death System towards possibilities and futurities7
Providing a voice to the experience of bereavement support at Mexican workplaces7
The silent grief of grandmothers after an out-of-order death—An interpretative phenomenological analysis7
Navigating the edge: A personal account of madness, suicide, and recovery7
Disembodied ritual: An explorative study on the meanings of physical absence during funerals by bereaved in times of COVID-197
Applying terror management theory as a framework to understand the impact of heightened mortality salience on children, adolescents, and their parents: A systematic review7
Effectiveness of the death education in Chinese nurses: A mixed method study7
Ecological momentary assessment in prolonged grief research: Feasibility, acceptability, and measurement reactivity6
Assessing prioritization of a good death across Brazil, Italy, Japan, and the United States: A psychometric evaluation6
Developing a scale to measure social dynamics in funeral ceremonies: A mixed methods approach6
What predicts suicidality among psychologists? An examination of risk and resilience6
I occasionally wear his huge sweaters… but I often prefer not to think about it: Bereaved children talking and not talking about parental loss6
Passing through end-of-life suffering: Possible or not? Results from a qualitative inquiry6
Adult insecure attachment styles and suicidality: A meta-analysis6
Influencing factors of nurses’ short-term bereavement reactions after patient death6
In the wake of a boat: The politics of mourning the 18th of April 2015 shipwreck6
‘I feel so alone… I am nobody, and I am nothing’. A psychosocial autopsy study on adolescent girls’ suicide, with a focus on sexual orientation6
Explaining suicidal ideation among divorced parents by coping strategies and personality characteristics: A mediation model6
“Quality of life matters to me more than life, itself”: A qualitative exploration of older adults’ values and preferences on controlling the time of death6
The Finnish Suicide Competency Assessment Form among mental health providers6
Experiences of Iranian people who lost a partner in road traffic collisions: A descriptive phenomenology6
Communication about euthanasia in Dutch nursing homes6
Stigmatization in the pre-death interactions of family and friends bereaved by a drug-related death6
Parents’ lived experience of support through their neonate’s end of life and grief journey: An interpretative phenomenology study6
Knowledge production in participatory grief research: A dialogical theoretical approach6
What we said and what I wish we said: Regret during final conversations6
Grief participation rights and the social support hierarchy: Exploring the communicative role of the bereaved in a social support interaction6
Turkish adaptation and psychometric evaluation of the Grief Impairment Scale6
Experiences of grief and loss among registered nurses in residential aged care facilities: A qualitative descriptive study5
Suicide-related communication and circumstances surrounding suicide: Study of police records in Slovenia5
Filling in the gaps: A grounded theory of the experiences and needs of healthcare staff following a colleague death by suicide in the UK5
Monitoring medical assistance in dying (MAiD) in Canada: Perspectives of physicians, nurse practitioners, and organizational regulatory actors5
Mindfulness exercises reduce death anxiety and burnout in intensive care nurses5
Dynamic bidirectional relation between state mindfulness and suicidal ideation among female college students: The moderating effect of trait mindfulness5
Bereavement in Pakistan during the COVID-19 pandemic: Psychometric analysis of the Pandemic Grief Scale-Urdu Version (PGS-UV)5
It’s hard not to Be the hero : Soldiers’ grief following injury discharge5
Correlates of prolonged grief, posttraumatic stress and depression symptoms in Brazilian COVID-19 bereaved adults5
Unveiling the unseen: Exploring stigma in stillbirth care through interdisciplinary narratives5
Transformations and transitions: The social and political life of the dead5
The impact of a student death doula service-learning experience in palliative care settings on nursing students: A pilot mixed-methods study5
Comparing social media engagement between women with suicidal ideation and those who have attempted suicide5
Loss circumstances, grief and political dissatisfaction following COVID-19 deaths in Brazil: A qualitative study5
“As long as they remember me, I am alive”: Commemoration and memory through stickers5
Reduced death anxiety as a mediator of the relationship between acute subjective effects of psychedelics and improved subjective well-being5
Cohort profile of FALCON: a prospective nationwide cohort of families with minor children who have lost a parent in Denmark in 2019–20215
The impact of their role on telephone crisis support workers’ psychological wellbeing and functioning: Qualitative findings from a mixed methods investigation5
Understanding self-healing: Recovery insights from Indonesian suicide loss survivors and support providers5
Patients’ experiences and expectations of the General Practitioner’s role during bereavement care after losing a loved one: A qualitative study5
Consulting parents bereaved by childhood cancer: A qualitative study to improve bereavement services5
The first 72 hours: Suicide loss survivor experiences with early responders5
Applying the phenomenology of grief: An autoethnographic study5
Construction of meaning in survivors of suicide loss: A Spanish translation and application of the Meaning in Loss Codebook5
The Pedagogy of Death and education in the wake of the pandemic: Implications for comprehensive teacher education encompassing awareness and the biographical dimension5
Attachment anxiety, loneliness, and death anxiety in problematic social media use5
Quality of life and loneliness post-bereavement: Results from a nationwide survey of bereaved older adults5
Supports for university counselors impacted by student suicide: A systematic review and thematic synthesis5
Proof of life: Human remains and memory in the Philippine Drug War5
The immortality trap: Terror management in the digital context5
“I know she’s there” meanings of continuing bonds for bereaved Costa Rican men: a qualitative study4
Revising ruling discourses: The griefwork evidence-to-practice gap and the mental health workforce4
Do mortality cues increase state autonomy? The moderating roles of trait autonomy, flexibility, and curiosity4
Measurement invariance of the Grief Facilitation Inventory with respect to youth gender, race, ethnicity, and age4
“I still think there’s like a huge stigma”: Understanding suicide-related stigma among those with lived experiences4
“It’s not a pain you can fix”: A qualitative exploration of working with vulnerably positioned current and bereaved carers across sectors of health and social care4
Experiences of Black South African widows regarding mourning rituals following the death of their spouses: Upholding cultural practices or violating human rights?4
End-of-life treatment preferences and advanced care planning among older adults4
Hearing the missing voices: Child and adolescent grief4
Missing pieces and body parts: On bodily integrity and political violence4
Exploring the process of adjustment following partner death in younger, widowed individuals: A qualitative systematic review4
The experiences of grandparents involved in the home-based end-of-life care of their grandchild with cancer: A qualitative secondary data analysis4
Association between parental psychological control and suicidality among college students: The chain mediating roles of perceived emotional invalidation and depressive symptoms and the moderating role4
Supporting bereaved students: Qualitative insights from Danish college student counselors4
Relatives’ grief at three moments after death of a loved one during COVID-19 pandemic (the CO-LIVE study)4
Gender differences in grief and growth: An international gender-matched controlled study from Belgium, Canada, and Spain4
Integration of disaster nursing, technology, and health policy in realizing community resilience4
“I could have”: The lived experience of bereavement-related regret4
Defense mechanisms and symptoms of depression, anxiety, and stress in bereaved individuals: A network analysis4
Neural correlates of death anxiety4
Understanding how volunteer companionship impacts those during the end of life: A realist evaluation4
Prolonged grief disorder among those who have lost family members due to natural disasters: A mixed design study4
Posttraumatic growth following a drug-related death: A family perspective4
Bereavement policies and plans in education: Evidence, barriers, and recommendations4
Latent profile analysis of rumination subtypes and associations with suicidal ideation and behavior4
Navigating autonomy and decision-making capacity: Legal and ethical considerations in Medical Assistance in Dying for individuals with mental disorders in Portugal4
“I would feel misunderstood and diminished:” Perceived helpfulness of a grief diagnosis among grievers4
A short-term intervention program for traumatic grief guided by the Two-Track Model of Bereavement (TTMB): Applying a multi-module transtheoretical framework4
Beyond meaning in life: How a perceived futility in searching for meaning in life predicts suicidal ideation4
Factors associated with suicidal ideation among medical students during the initial phase of the COVID-19 pandemic in Peru: A multicenter study4
Psychosocial burden after the death of a child from cancer: Results of a bereaved parent survey4
“It turned out right for both of us”: A qualitative study about a preference for home death and actual place of death4
COVID-19 pandemic impact on funeral service workers’ work-related mental health4
The integrated process model of loss and grief - An interprofessional understanding4
Utrecht grief rumination scale (UGRS): Psychometric study of validation of the Portuguese version4
Free will and scientific determinism beliefs and the support for physician-assisted death4
Death perceptions, grief, and distress in Ultra-Orthodox Jews who witnessed the 2021 Meron disaster4
Changing perspectives on participation in assisted dying in Queensland, Australia: A one-year qualitative longitudinal study of doctors4
Never-ending funerals. Annual burials and reburials of victims of mass violence in present-day Bosnia and Herzegovina*4
Correction4
Factors associated with nonparticipation and loss to follow-up in bereavement research using data from a cohort of parents with a loss in pregnancy or the neonatal period4
Demystifying dying in end-of-life-care: A phenomenological perspective4
“We are the forgotten grievers”: Bereaved family members’ experiences of support and mental ill-health following a road traffic collision4
Framing equivocal deaths in contemporary forensics3
The mediating role of self-efficacy, social support, and hope in the relation between mental health and resilience among 2023 Türkiye earthquake survivors3
Family members’ experiences of bereavement in the emergency department: A meta-synthesis of qualitative studies3
Continuing bonds of bereaved Muslims mothers with their young dead child3
“You have to be mentally prepared for that moment”: Attitudes of the adolescent population to death and their educational implications3
Attitudes of clinical psychologists and medical doctors to assisted dying in the UK: A mixed-methods survey3
A long overdue sourcebook of American Indian death and dyingA review of Sociology of Death and the American Indian by Gerry R. Cox. Le3
Evaluation of the death anxiety beliefs and behaviors scale in Iranian adolescents3
A case report to understand the use of an evidence-based approach of prolonged grief therapy in Chinese culture3
Development and validation of the Earthquake Obsession Scale3
The psychometric properties of the Peruvian traumatic grief inventory-self report plus (TGI-SR+) in bereaved people3
Grief experiences of nurses who lose their first-degree relatives with the diagnosis of COVID-19: A qualitative study3
Maternal mental health, marital adjustment, and family support in the grieving process after a pregnancy loss3
“We need to share our stories”: Perspectives from suicide loss survivors in India3
“So, whose milk was it? … It became all of ours, together”: A relational autoethnographic study of an interactional human milk donation process through bereavement3
Meaning-making following loss among bereaved spouses during the COVID-19 pandemic (the CO-LIVE study)3
Level of professional quality of life and coping with death competence in healthcare professionals exposed to perinatal loss: A cross-sectional study3
Congenital loss: Loss of an immediate family member prior to or during one’s birth3
Assessing complicated spiritual grief: A psychometric study of the Inventory of complicated spiritual grief 2.0 in an Iranian context3
The psychological burden of bereavement in the general population of UK and Ireland3
Cluster analysis of suicidal ideation and influencing factors among Spanish teachers3
Accessing an assisted death from the UK: Navigating the legal ‘grey’ area3
The Fear of COVID-19 Scale: Psychometric properties and measurement invariance across 10 months3
“Understanding why she had to leave me”: The roles of religion and spirituality in narratives of parents grieving the loss of a child to cancer3
Exploring attentional bias in nursing students under sadness priming: A dot-probe study3
Factors influencing home-based death among older adults in mainland China: An application of Andersen behavioral model3
Bereavement outcomes of carers of patients with high grade glioma: Experiences of support before and after the death3
Negotiating the postvention situation: A grounded theory of NHS staff experiences when supporting their coworkers following a colleague’s suicide3
Mass Shootings Anxiety Scale: A preliminary psychometric study3
Are ‘time’ and ‘culture’ useful and necessary diagnostic requirements for ICD-11 Prolonged Grief Disorder? A Cross-national study3
Partner bereavement when parenting dependent children: What factors influence adjustment?3
Algorithmic anthropomorphism and AI moral standing: The moderating role of mortality salience3
Developing a compassionate university: Insights from a longitudinal process evaluation3
Risk and correlates of prolonged grief disorder in bereaved Chinese university students3
Embodied memories - exploring memorial tattoos through the lens of terror management theory3
Identifying suicide ideation in mental health application posts: A random forest algorithm3
Barriers and solutions to equitable funeral care in the U.S. for the LGBTQIA+ community3
Factors associated with suicide risk among Brazilian graduate students during the COVID-19 pandemic3
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