- Basinger, E. D., Wehrman, E. C., & McAninch, K. G. (2016). Grief communication and privacy rules: Examining the communication of individuals bereaved by the death of a family member. Journal of Family Communication, 16(4), 285-302. http://doi.org/10.1080/15267431.2016.1182534
- Discussing grief can be uncomfortable for both the bereaved and the confidant, and bereaved individuals mayseek to control how information about grief is shared. Bereaved college students who completed interviews about a familymember’s death and their communication about grief indicated that they felt a strong need to control information andshare and discuss the death according to their own and their families’ rules.
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