This Master’s thesis deals with the life of young adult individuals after their partner's death. Death of a partner in young adulthood is usually unexpected and presents a great change in a person's life. While adjusting to the loss of a loved one, the surviving person goes through a process of grief that affects multiple aspects of their life and can also cause them some problems. The concepts of coping and resilience are important when trying to understand how someone is adjusting to the death of a loved one, and there are also multiple factors that influence this process: socio-cultural factors, personal factors, and situational factors referring to the cause of death. The empirical part of this thesis is based on qualitative research that included five individuals who lost their partner in young adulthood. I focused on what the individual had to cope with and how their life changed. I used semi-structured interviews, self-assessment questionnaires of attachment, qualitatively analysed the gathered data and wrote a grounded theory based on the results. I found out that there were some differences between the interviewees in coping with loss, which can be connected to how satisfied they were with their relationship before their partner’s death. After the death of their partner, the changes appeared in many areas of the interviewees’ lives. The interviewees mentioned various coping resources and some of the problems that were present while they were coping with their partner's death. In the latter, I also recognized some differences among interviewees, which I linked to the gender of the grieving person and the nature of their partner's death.
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