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Death Anxiety

, 2020
Excerpt Just as humans are sentient creatures, aware of their beingness in this world, they are also cognizant of their eventual and inevitable death. With this knowledge comes the natural dread and anxiety associated with being aware that on any given ...
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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 as a Function of Aging Anxiety

Death Studies, 2007
To assess how different facets of aging anxiety contributed to the prediction of tangible and existential death anxiety, 167 Americans of various Christian denominations completed a battery of questionnaires. Multiple regression analyses, controlling for demographic variables and previously demonstrated predictors of death anxiety, revealed that the ...
Jeremy P, Benton, Andrew N, Christopher, Mark I, Walter   +2 more
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Elements of death anxiety and meanings of death

Journal of Clinical Psychology, 1988
The objectives of this study were: (1) to test hypotheses that women would have higher death anxiety than men and that older persons would have lower death anxiety than younger people; and (2) to probe for meanings of death among a large, heterogeneous sample. A group of 599 adolescents and adults completed a death anxiety scale; factor analysis of the
J A, Thorson, F C, Powell
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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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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

Abstract When facing the possibility of death, people adopt proximal and distal defenses to cope with the fear of dying. Proximal defenses are logically related to the threat, triggered when thoughts of death occupy one’s attention.
Aaron Suomala Folkerds, Diane Coursol
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Relationship of Physical Anxiety to Death Anxiety and Age

The Journal of Genetic Psychology, 1980
(1980). Relationship of Physical Anxiety to Death Anxiety and Age. The Journal of Genetic Psychology: Vol. 137, No. 1, pp. 147-148.
G R, Elkins, A F, Fee
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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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Death Anxiety and Death Acceptance: A Preliminary Approach

OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying, 1975
Death acceptance is not necessarily the opposite of death anxiety. The two could in fact correlate positively. A third category of “death denial” should also be considered. A new scale to measure death acceptance was devised. It was found to be reliable and, in a group of students, correlated positively ( rs = .242 and .263) with two existing death ...
Ray, JJ, Najman, J
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