What's the difference between viduity and widowhood?
Viduity
Definition:
(n.) Widowhood.
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Widowhood
Definition:
(n.) The state of being a widow; the time during which a woman is widow; also, rarely, the state of being a widower.
(n.) Estate settled on a widow.
Example Sentences:
(1) A model is developed to use marital history data from the U.S. Current Population Survey and mortality statistics from the federal registration system to estimate color differences in (a) the risk of widowhood among women in the working ages and (by the cumulative duration of widowhood.
(2) These results are discussed in light of changing patterns of divorce and widowhood in later life.
(3) This study seeks to clarify the effect of widowhood on ego identity and psychological functioning.
(4) This paper investigated the relationships of widowhood, sex, and labor force participation with the use of ambulatory physician services by elderly adults.
(5) Age and education, along with community integration, were better predictors of the variables studied than was widowhood.
(6) Mortality from suicides was greater than expected during the first years of widowhood.
(7) Implications for remarriage as a coping mechanism for widowhood and the relation of age to remarriage decisions are discussed.
(8) Self-reported marital separation or divorce and physical disability affecting employment were strongly associated with high depression scores, whereas the normative stresses of aging (widowhood, retirement, social isolation) were not.
(9) This study focused on the use and reporting of sampling procedures found in research on widowhood.
(10) For some women, widowhood brings the freedom to rediscover their identities, establish independent goals, and take on new challenges.
(11) The findings suggest that lower morale scores found among the widowed may be partly attributable to other factors commonly associated with this status and not due to the role of widowhood per se.
(12) Widowhood for women may be complicated by a lack of financial experience or knowledge, further diminishing well-being.
(13) One of the neglected areas in the study of the social structure of the family is that of widowhood, the last stage in the family life cycle.
(14) It was unusual for the hallucinations to have been disclosed, even to close friends or relatives.These hallucinations are considered to be normal and helpful accompaniments of widowhood.
(15) However, periods of singlehood, widowhood, and nuclear family life are perceived as extremely likely, particularly among female adolescents.
(16) Despite the presence of psychological distress in a significant minority, most bereaved individuals report good health, satisfactory work performance and good adjustment to widowhood.
(17) Overall, age and time since widowhood have the strongest and most consistent effects on remarriage rates for different widowed groups.
(18) Taken together, these results suggest that what appears on the surface to be a gender difference in vulnerability to the same life event turns out upon closer examination to occur because widowhood does not affect men and women in the same way.
(19) Analysis of reports of orphanhood and widowhood suggests moderately high levels of mortality.
(20) Ways of coping with problems during the first months of widowhood had significant long-term effects upon the widow's health.