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Death Anxiety among Lebanese Samples

Psychological Reports, 1991
An Arabic version of the Templer Death Anxiety Scale was administered to 673 Lebanese volunteer subjects (164 boys, 165 girls in secondary school, 170 men, 174 women undergraduates). Females attained higher mean death anxiety scores than males. The Lebanese samples had either the same or a lower mean score on death anxiety than their Arab peers, that ...
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Death Anxiety among the Elderly

Psychological Reports, 1980
On the Death Anxiety Scale 31 blacks scored higher than 31 whites; but black and white males scored similarly. Females scored higher than men. No good explanations were noted.
J F, Sanders, T E, Poole, W T, Rivero
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Death anxiety, dissent, and competence

Journal of Personality, 1979
AbstractA total of 64 male undergraduates were administered a multistage interview which was structured to assess (a) their level of overtly expressed death anxiety, (b) covert (GSR) arousal to death stimuli, (c) self‐perceived competence, and (d) agreement with or dissent from life threatening national policies.
I E, Alexander, P R, Costanzo
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Death anxiety: “State” or “trait”?

Journal of Clinical Psychology, 1979
Investigated relative effects of hypnosis, alpha biofeedback, prestige suggestion, and silence in attenuating experimentally induced increases in death anxiety. Forty female undergraduate Ss at Louisiana State University were tested on four measures of death anxiety: "Emotional" associations to "death" words, association response latencies to "death ...
C G, Pettigrew, J G, Dawson
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Death Anxiety in Suicide Attempters

Psychological Reports, 1974
Death anxiety was related to the potential for rescue after a suicide attempt. No relationship was observed between death anxiety and risk or lethality of suicide attempt. The 12 males and 38 females did not differ in either suicide rating or death anxiety; nor was there a difference on these variables in first and multiple attempters.
R E, Tarter, D I, Templer, R L, Perley
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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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Adaptive Insights into Death Anxiety

The Psychoanalytic Review, 2003
The danger of death appears to be the most fundamental and universal source of adaptive and defensive structures. Death is a universal and inherently unresolvable adaptive issue, and conscious and unconscious forms of death anxiety are ever-present. As a result, these grave concerns are significant factors in the development of virtually every type of ...
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Death anxiety and palliative nursing

British Journal of Community Nursing, 2016
The article focuses on the impact of death anxiety on palliative nursing. It talks about the the presence of death taboo in Western societies and how it can negatively impact well-being. It suggests that palliative care professionals can suffer greater levels of death anxiety due to being exposed to the death of patients under their care and how it ...
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Perceptual Defensiveness and Death Anxiety

Psychological Reports, 1977
This study investigated the relationship between the extent of defensive responding on a perceptual recognition task and score on the Handal death anxiety scale. The results did not confirm the hypothesis that perceptually defensive respondents (those with elevated thresholds for death words as opposed to neutral words) would tend to have lower scores
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