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Showing 1 to 20 of 32 for “"Death Anxiety"”.
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Differing Death Scenarios: Self Esteem and Death Anxiety.
… research has found a correlation between death anxiety and self esteem. Researchers have found that both self-esteem and death anxiety play a significant role in an individual's behavior.</p> <p>The purpose of this study was to investigate a correlation, if any, between death anxiety and …
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Death Anxiety and Clinical Experience in Generic Baccalaureate Nursing Students
… problem under study was the relationship between death anxiety and clinical experience anxiety in generic baccalaureate nursing students. A convenience sample of 23 female nursing students from 3 baccalaureate schools of nursing in the upper midwest was utilized. The research instrument consisted …
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Correlates of Death Anxiety: Self Esteem, Neuroticism and Purpose of Life
… correlation exists between self esteem and death anxiety. It is thought that this finding may be influenced by two main factors, which when controlled for would yield the expected result of a positive relationship. One factor is neuroticism which is related to fear of death and low self …
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COUNSELOR EFFECTIVENESS: RELATIONSHIP TO DEATH ANXIETY AND ATTITUDES TOWARD DISABLED PERSONS
… study was to examine the relationships among death anxiety, attitudes toward disabled persons and counselor effectiveness. The subjects of this study were 50 masters degree students at The University of Arizona. All subjects were volunteers and were enrolled in the Rehabilitation Counseling …
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COVID-19’s Effects on Mortality Salience, Death Anxiety, and Worldview Defense
… that when individuals are reminded of their own death people take part in culturally appropriate activities and defend their own culture as ways to alleviate this increased death anxiety. The current study aims to identify whether 1) reminders of COVID-19 prime death thoughts, 2) reminders of …
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An Examination of Death Salience: A Component in the Death Anxiety Model
… theoretical approaches in the assessment of death anxiety and death attitudes for patients diagnosed with a potentially life threatening illness, such as cancer. This illness experience forces patients to contemplate their mortality. The present study employed a portion of the Death Anxiety …
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Perceiving the World in Sacred Terms: Its Buffering Function Against Death Anxiety
… in sacred terms functions as a buffer against death anxiety and the possibly destructive effects of death anxiety, such as materialism. The sacred is associated with the qualities of transcendence (perception of a larger and sublime reality beyond appearances) and ultimacy (perception of utmost …
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In reality meager: eluding death anxiety in Walt Whitman and Federico Garcia Lorca's poetics of the body
… can be found in their psychological reactions to death anxiety, as exemplified in their poems on the body. While Whitman imagines achieving immortality through construction of a transcendentalist “over-soul,” Lorca envisions an unending dance with death through the Andalusian ideology of “duende.” …
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The effects of an eight-hour continuing education course on the death anxiety levels of registered nurses
… study was to determine the effects of a death and dying course on the death anxiety levels of registered nurses; The primary prevention mode of intervention of the Neuman Systems Model and Bandura's belief-oriented approach of the social learning theory provided the framework for this …
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A comparative study of hospice vs nonhospice nurses' attitudes toward death and dying and level of death anxiety
… survey was to assess nurses' attitudes toward death and dying and level of death anxiety. Sixty nine nurses from nonhospice and hospice settings were surveyed. Findings indicated the hospice nurses had a more positive attitude toward death and dying and lower level of death anxiety than …
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Effects of a Combined Didactic and Experiential Death Education/Empathy Training Program on Death Anxiety and Empathic Ability of Medical Students
… Students' personal anxieties and fear of death may lessen and their empathic interpersonal skills increase with formal academic preparation This study examined the effects of a death education course which included empathic communication skills training specifically related to interaction …
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Eschatological Thought and Religiosity Among Christians: Patterns And Relationships
In contrast to research on fundamentalism and death anxiety, there has been very little empirical research on the relationship between a person's eschatology, religious thought and behavior. This study attempts to identify associations between eschatology, religiosity, locus of control, death …
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Studying the Effects of the End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium
… (ELNEC) training program on registered nurses’ death anxiety, concerns about dying, and knowledge of the dying process utilizing the principles of The Comfort Theory and Practice by Kolcaba (2003) at the institutional level. The research hypothesis was upon completion of the ELNEC training, …
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Integrity, despair, locus of control and life satisfaction among elderly residents of homes for adults
… feel little or no control over their lives. Death anxiety, as measured by the Death Anxiety scale (Templer, 1970) was used to define integrity/despair. The indicator of locus of control was the Mastery Scale (Pearlin & Schooler, 1978), and life satisfaction was assessed with the Philadelphia …
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Existential predictors of psychological well-being
… assessing their levels of self-actualization, death anxiety, spirituality, purpose in life, satisfaction with life, psychological well-being, positive affect, and negative affect. The main purpose of this study was to examine the degree to which these existential variables predicted overall …
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The effect of an experiential death and dying awareness workshop on expressed anxiety toward death
… participated in a 10 to 12 hour experiential death education workshop. The program emphasized basic communication skills in exploring death and dying issues. Satir’s communication patterns were used in a simulated family planning event; participants were encouraged to write in a journal after …
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Hospice Care in Malaysia: Knowledge, Attitude and Time of Discussion
… attitude toward caring for the dying, personal death anxiety and when they believe is the right time to discuss hospice care. No significant relationships were found between knowledge of hospice care, attitude towards caring for the dying and personal death anxiety and the decision of nurses and …
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