The state of having lost a marital partner by death.

A relational pattern in which a person attempts to derive a sense of purpose through relationships with others.

Refers to the whole process of grieving and mourning and is associated with a deep sense of loss and sadness.

A personality disorder characterized by overly reactive and intensely expressed or overly dramatic behavior, proneness to exaggeration, emotional excitability, and disturbances in interpersonal relationships.

The social institution involving legal and/or religious sanction whereby individuals are joined together.

The unmarried man or woman.

A demographic parameter indicating a person's status with respect to marriage, divorce, widowhood, singleness, etc.

Married persons, i.e., husbands and wives, or partners. Domestic partners, or spousal equivalents, are two adults who have chosen to share their lives in an intimate and committed relationship, reside together, and share a mutual obligation of support for the basic necessities of life.

All deaths reported in a given population.

The interactions between individuals of different generations. These interactions include communication, caring, accountability, loyalty, and even conflict between related or non-related individuals.