# Reconstructing Self and Sacred Meaning After the Death of an Extended-self: A Scoping Review of Spiritual Suffering Following Childhood Father Loss
> Anugrah M.R.

URL kanonis: https://discover.unhas.ac.id/publications/pub_scopus_105037928593
Jurnal / Konferensi: Omega United States
Tahun terbit: 2026
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/00302228261449586
ISSN: 00302228
Kuartil SJR: Q2
Citations: 0

## Authors
- Anugrah M.R.

## Abstract
Early father-loss in childhood can exert lasting effects on self-structure, meaning, and spirituality. This scoping review maps scholarship on spiritual suffering and post-loss self-reconstruction, foregrounding an extended-self lens. Guided by Arksey and O'Malley's framework, we searched PubMed, Scopus, Science Direct, and ProQuest, screened studies against predefined criteria, and synthesized findings narratively and thematically. Evidence depicts father-loss as a sustained disruption of identity and meaning, with spiritual suffering emerging as layered, contextually embedded, and developmentally variable. Four themes recur: (1) disruption to self-structure and the extended self, (2) spiritual suffering as a layered existential experience, (3) meaning reconstruction and the continuity of bonds, and (4) the role of narrative and metaphor in spiritual meaning-making. The literature seldom operationalizes extended-self explicitly and is dominated by Western contexts. We call for systematic, cross-cultural, developmentally sensitive research that integrates extended-self theory and mixed, longitudinal designs to clarify developmental trajectories.

## Keywords
- Meaning (existential)
- Existentialism
- Foregrounding
- Narrative
- Scholarship
- Psychology
- Identity (music)
- Metaphor
- Psychoanalysis
- Meaning-making
- Externalization
- Spirituality
- Developmental psychology
- Psychotherapist
- Narrative inquiry
- Social psychology
- Sociology
- Vulnerability (computing)
- Spiritual development
- Lived experience
- Epistemology
- Early childhood
- Qualitative research
- Identity formation
- Narrative identity
- Psychopathology

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