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Death imagery and death anxiety

Journal of Clinical Psychology, 1986
This study investigated the relationship between positive/negative death imagery and death anxiety. Subjects were 179 undergraduate students at a large, private, midwestern university. Results reveal that on five measures of death anxiety the subjects with low death anxiety scores had significantly more positive death images than did those with high ...
R T, McDonald, W A, Hilgendorf
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Death Anxiety, Death Depression, and Death Obsession

Psychological Reports, 2003
In a sample of 67 students, scores from Templer's and the Collett-Lester death anxiety scales, Templer, et al.'s death depression scale, and Abdel-Khalek's death obsession scale were only moderately associated, suggesting that the scales are measuring somewhat different constructs.
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Death anxiety and religion

Current 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
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Death Anxiety

This chapter will help counselors and counselor trainees develop the capacity to understand the concept of death anxiety for themselves and for those they serve. Moreover, this chapter will define death anxiety, discuss the history of death anxiety within the helping professions, and provide guidelines for exploring one's own death anxiety and the ...
Aaron Suomala Folkerds, Diane Coursol
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Death and Death Anxiety

2017
In a recent meeting with physicians from the pediatric emergency room, I had them do an exercise that we also do with the second year medical students. Each person was asked to write down five goals and dreams for their life. They then shared their list with the person sitting beside them.
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Religious Involvement and Death Anxiety

OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying, 2014
The purpose of this study is to test a conceptual model that aims to clarify the relationship between religious commitment and death anxiety. This model contains the following hypotheses: (1) people who affiliate with Conservative Protestant congregations will be more likely to attend worship services; (2) people who go to church more often will be ...
Neal, Krause, R David, Hayward
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NURSES REACT TO DEATH ANXIETY

Journal of Gerontological Nursing, 1983
Thanatology classes for nurses cause anxieties about their own deaths.
L C, Mullins, S, Merrian
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Personifications of Death and Death Anxiety

Journal of Personality Assessment, 1982
University students (n = 165), graduate nursing students (n = 102), and funeral service students (n = 68) completed Templer's Death Anxiety Scale (DAS) and a Death Personification Exercise (DPE). Responses to the DAS and DPE were subjected to principal components factor analysis using varimax rotational procedures and the factor scores derived for each
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Existential Perspectives on Death Anxiety

Psychological Reports, 2004
Construct validity is the hallmark of Templer's Death Anxiety Scale (1970), which has generated a healthy stream of research of paramount importance in the USA and all over the world. This paper contends that scores on this scale provide valuable scientific knowledge on group norms.
J A, Beshai, Mohamed A, Naboulsi
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Death and Death Anxiety

2014
Although death and life concepts seem so different from each other, some believe that death and life as a whole that death is accepted as the goal of life and death completes life. In different cultures, societies and disciplines, there have been very different definitions of death which changes according to personality, age, religion and cultural ...
KARAKUŞ, Gonca, ÖZTÜRK, Zehra, TAMAM, Lut   +2 more
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