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Psychosocial Correlates of Death Anxiety in Advanced Cancer: A Scoping Review. [PDF]

open access: yesPsychooncology
Brown TL   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Death anxiety and religion

open access: yesCurrent Opinion in Psychology, 2021
This review summarises research on the relationship between death anxiety and religiosity. The fear of death is commonly hypothesized as a motivation for religious belief. From a Terror Management Theory perspective, religious beliefs are especially attractive because they offer both literal and symbolic immortality in the form of afterlife beliefs and
Jong, Jonathan
openaire   +3 more sources

Undertakers' Death Anxiety

open access: yesPsychological Reports, 1996
A sample of 60 morticians completed the Revised Death Anxiety Scale. Their responses were compared with scores on that scale from 136 men from other occupations. The funeral directors' death anxiety scores were surprisingly high. Perhaps they are less able successfully to repress death fears because of constant occupational exposure to issues related ...
J A, Thorson, F C, Powell
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