Factors Affecting the Level of Grief Experienced by Men Whose Female Partner Died in the United States

Grief is an emotional reaction to the loss of a loved one through death. Although grief is a universal human experience, its perspective is unique, and research has often ignored the varied experiences of racial/ethnic and cultural groups, particularly men of color in the United States. The purpose of this quantitative study was to measure the level of grief experienced by men whose female partner died and to determine whether ethnicity, having a prior mental health diagnosis, social support, and traumatic or anticipated loss significantly impacted their level of grief. The study was guided by the social-ecological model to explain any revealed associations. Descriptive statistics and linear multiple regression were used to analyze N=208 Amazon Mechanical Turk electronic survey responses. Results revealed that social support and type of loss had statistically significant associations, R² = .254, p