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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 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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Undertakers' Death Anxiety

Psychological 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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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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