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Psychodrama and moviemaking in a death education course to work through a case of suicide among high school students in Italy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
This study describes the psychological effects of an experience of death education (DE) used to explore a case of suicide in an Italian high school. DE activities included philosophical and religious perspectives of the relationships between death and ...
Galgani, Michele   +5 more
core   +5 more sources

The Mediating Role of Positive and Negative Affect in the Relationship between Death Anxiety and Italian Students’ Perceptions of Distance Learning Quality during the COVID-19 Pandemic

open access: yesSocieties, 2023
Recent data show that death anxiety and negative affect (NA) have become increasingly relevant because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The constant reminders of mortality through mass media and social media have contributed to this trend.
Maria Rita Sergi   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Gratitude lessens death anxiety [PDF]

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Ageing, 2011
This study investigated whether a brief gratitude induction could reduce death anxiety. 83 Chinese older adults (mean age = 62.7, SD = 7.13) were randomly assigned into one of three conditions: gratitude, hassle, and neutral, in which they wrote different types of life events before responding to measures of death anxiety and affect.
Rosanna W L, Lau, Sheung-Tak, Cheng
openaire   +2 more sources

For I Know the Plans I Have for You: God Locus of Control, Spiritual Change, and Death Anxiety in Primary Brain Tumor Patients [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Background/Purpose. Primary brain tumor (PBT) patients risk experiencing death anxiety given the high mortality rate of their diagnosis. In line with Terror Management Theory (TMT), many diagnosed with cancer utilize religion as a method of coping with ...
Boutte, Rachel   +6 more
core   +1 more source

One-punch laws, mandatory minimums and ‘alcohol-fuelled’ as an aggravating factor: implications for NSW criminal law [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
: This article critically examines the New South Wales State Government’s latest policy response to the problem of alcohol-related violence and anxiety about ‘one punch’ killings: the recently enacted Crimes and Other Legislation Amendment (Assault and ...
Julia Ann Quilter
core   +4 more sources

The religious correlates of death anxiety:A systematic review and meta-analysis [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Various theories of religion hypothesize a connection between death anxiety and religiosity. In particular, Terror Management Theory’s worldview defense hypothesis predicts that death anxiety is lowest among very religious and irreligious individuals ...
Chang, Si Hua   +5 more
core   +2 more sources

Scale of Death Anxiety (SDA): Development and Validation

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2017
This study developed and validated a new measure to assess the death anxiety (i.e., Scale of Death Anxiety, SDA) on an individual’s somatic, cognitive, emotional, and behavioral reactions from a symptomatic perspective in Chinese youth samples. Following
Wei Cai   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

IMPACT OF DEATH ANXIETY ON RESILIENCE AMONG PATIENTS WITH CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE: ROLE OF SOCIAL SUPPORT AS MODERATOR

open access: yesThe Rehabilitation Journal, 2022
Background: There are so many cases report with death anxiety in Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD). Death anxiety leads toward various types of psychopathologies as well as numerous disorders.
Mariyam Ikram   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Memento Mori: The development and validation of the Death Reflection Scale [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Despite its potential for advancing organizational behavior (OB) research, the topic of death awareness has been vastly understudied. Moreover, research on death awareness has predominantly focused on the anxiety‐provoking aspect of death‐related ...
Baranik, Lisa E.   +5 more
core   +1 more source

Aging and attentional bias for death related and general threat-related information: less avoidance in older as compared with middle-aged adults [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Objectives. The aging literature suggests that life satisfaction and affective well being stabilizes or even increases during the aging process, and that death anxiety would decrease with aging. Experimental psychology literature shows that emotions play
De Raedt, Rudi   +2 more
core   +2 more sources

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