Kindled emotions: Commemoration and the importance of meaning making, support and recognition.

ABSTRACT: Commemorative events, organized in the aftermath of war or large-scale violence, can have an emotional impact on those who are attending. We examined several characteristics that might influence this impact. In a quasi-experimental pretest-posttest study, participants (n = 307) watched footage of the broadcast of the Dutch National Commemoration, in which World War II is remembered. A control group of 48 participants watched the commemoration broadcast live on Remembrance Day. They were matched for age, gender, war experience and migration background with 48 participants from the study group who watched the footage, to conduct a comparability check. We found some evidence that watching the footage was comparable to watching the commemoration live on Remembrance Day in terms of emotional re

SUBMITTER: Mitima-Verloop HB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10124837 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature