本研究旨在探討於青少年時期曾經驗父（母）親過世的成人，面對其父（母）親過世的失落事件個人之因應方式，以及失落事件對個人造成的影響和意義是什麼？

研究採現象學取向的深度訪談方式為研究方法，邀請五位成年人，進行回溯性資料蒐集，並以中心主題及個人描敘文加以分析資料。主要的研究發現如下：

一、失落事件與自我之間存在一個互為背景與圖像的關係。以此一觀點引申，發現失落具有四個內涵：失落感覺的產生來自情境的引發、失落是經驗主體的主動感知、失落是循環不止的質變過程、失落其實是部份自我的失落。

二、失落事件的發生對個人最主要的影響在於，經驗失落的主體之自我概念的改變。其中改變的向度包括自我認同、家庭動力、人際互動及生命觀等四個層面。

三、成功的因應失落來自於經驗主體其自我概念的成功重建。

四、失落的意義在於，個人因與過世父（母）親的關係的中斷，促使經驗失落的主體得以發展新的眼光來看待過去關係中的「自我」。

五、以時間序列的縱觀角度探討失落的因應歷程時，發現個人因應失落的歷程有極高的個殊性，無法歸納出相同的步驟、階段。但在失落感受發生的片刻之間，發現個人在面對其失落感受及現實生活挑戰時，具有極為相似的心理歷程。

最後依據以上的研究發現，提出有關對諮商人員、父母及教育工作者及對未來研究的建議。

The purpose of this study was to understand coping process, the influence, and the meaning of adults when they were adolescent following parental death.

Five interviewees participated this study. Phenomenological deep interview was adopted to collect data. Central themes and essential descriptions were chosen to analyze. The main finding were as follow:

1. The relationship of loss and self was just like figure and ground. There were four implications from this concept such as: 1) loss was induced by the environment 2)loss was an active feeling 3)the meaning of loss was changeable.4) loss came from part of self loss.

2. Facing the event of loss, the most critical influence towards interviewees was the change to his/hers self-concept. Changed aspects included self-indentity, family dynamics, interpersonal dynamics, and vision to life.

3. Successful coping skills mean the self-concept had been successfully reconstructed.

4. The meaning of loss was what could get a new self-concept ideal by the interrupted parental relationship.

5. There were no typical loss coping process among these interviewees. But when loss appears in daily life, there was a similar psychological process.

The discussion and suggestion about the develoment of loss counseling were raised at the end the article.