Garner, Carly M. (2019) A Discursive Psychology Analysis of Doing Bereavement by Suicide and Online Forums. Honours thesis, University of Southern Queensland. (Unpublished)
Abstract
The aim of the current study was to examine support in online forums. A discursive psychology approach was used to analysis how individuals who have lost a loved one by suicide seek, provide and acknowledge support on online bereavement by suicide forums. Twenty-two threads formed the data corpus and were sourced from one bereavement by suicide forum. This study found that in order to gain support you must first seek support, and this was accomplished by either implicitly or explicitly requesting support and presenting themselves as someone in need of support. Responders, in return, provided support through common supportive actions; the first is acknowledgement of the first-posters situation through condolence; the second is an alignment and empathy through the sharing of stories; the third is providing explicit advice; the fourth is giving encouragement to or a sense of hope to the first-poster; and, the final supportive action is forum members referencing the relevance or benefit of the forum. The returning first-poster acknowledged the support by providing a receipt of acknowledgment; explicitly acknowledging the supportive actions of the responders and/or making implicit references to what was disclosed in previous replies; and enacting the support. Findings from this study may provide a better prospective view into challenges that individuals who have lost a loved one to suicide are encountering; which may in turn provide useful information in improving our knowledge of the supportive needs of individuals that are bereaved by suicide.
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| Item Type: | Thesis (Non-Research) (Honours) |
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| Item Status: | Live Archive |
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| Faculty/School / Institute/Centre: | Historic - Faculty of Health, Engineering and Sciences - School of Psychology and Counselling (1 Jan 2015 - 31 Dec 2021) |
| Supervisors: | Andrea Lamont Mills |
| Qualification: | Bachelor of Science (Honours) |
| Date Deposited: | 02 Sep 2025 04:05 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Sep 2025 04:05 |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | discursive psychology; suicide bereavement; online forum; peer support; crisis |
| Fields of Research (2008): | 17 Psychology and Cognitive Sciences > 1799 Other Psychology and Cognitive Sciences > 179999 Psychology and Cognitive Sciences not elsewhere classified |
| Fields of Research (2020): | 52 PSYCHOLOGY > 5299 Other psychology > 529999 Other psychology not elsewhere classified |
| URI: | https://sear.unisq.edu.au/id/eprint/52336 |
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