Author: Adrian Tomer
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317714644
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
This innovative and informative new text bridges the fields of gerontology and thanatology.
Family Environment Correlates of Death Anxiety
Author: William Joseph Goodman
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages :
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Languages : en
Pages :
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Death Anxiety and Religious Belief
Author: Jonathan Jong
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350061603
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
There are no atheists in foxholes; or so we hear. The thought that the fear of death motivates religious belief has been around since the earliest speculations about the origins of religion. There are hints of this idea in the ancient world, but the theory achieves prominence in the works of Enlightenment critics and Victorian theorists of religion, and has been further developed by contemporary cognitive scientists. Why do people believe in gods? Because they fear death. Yet despite the abiding appeal of this simple hypothesis, there has not been a systematic attempt to evaluate its central claims and the assumptions underlying them. Do human beings fear death? If so, who fears death more, religious or nonreligious people? Do reminders of our mortality really motivate religious belief? Do religious beliefs actually provide comfort against the inevitability of death? In Death Anxiety and Religious Belief, Jonathan Jong and Jamin Halberstadt begin to answer these questions, drawing on the extensive literature on the psychology of death anxiety and religious belief, from childhood to the point of death, as well as their own experimental research on conscious and unconscious fear and faith. In the course of their investigations, they consider the history of ideas about religion's origins, challenges of psychological measurement, and the very nature of emotion and belief.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350061603
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
There are no atheists in foxholes; or so we hear. The thought that the fear of death motivates religious belief has been around since the earliest speculations about the origins of religion. There are hints of this idea in the ancient world, but the theory achieves prominence in the works of Enlightenment critics and Victorian theorists of religion, and has been further developed by contemporary cognitive scientists. Why do people believe in gods? Because they fear death. Yet despite the abiding appeal of this simple hypothesis, there has not been a systematic attempt to evaluate its central claims and the assumptions underlying them. Do human beings fear death? If so, who fears death more, religious or nonreligious people? Do reminders of our mortality really motivate religious belief? Do religious beliefs actually provide comfort against the inevitability of death? In Death Anxiety and Religious Belief, Jonathan Jong and Jamin Halberstadt begin to answer these questions, drawing on the extensive literature on the psychology of death anxiety and religious belief, from childhood to the point of death, as well as their own experimental research on conscious and unconscious fear and faith. In the course of their investigations, they consider the history of ideas about religion's origins, challenges of psychological measurement, and the very nature of emotion and belief.
Death Anxiety Handbook: Research, Instrumentation, And Application
Author: Robert A. Neimeyer
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1317763661
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Presenting a broad coverage of this major area of studies on death and dying, this book provides a systematic presentation of the six most widely used and best validated measures of death anxiety, threat and fear. These chapters consider the available data on the psychometric properties of each instrument and summarize research using them, and also supply a copy of the instrument with scoring keys - to facilitate their use. In addition, other chapters make use of the instrumentation by pursuing questions of applied significance in various health care settings nursing homes, psychotherapy, death education, near death experiences, persons with AIDS, experiences of bereaved young adults.; An introductory chapter introduces the major philosophical and psychological theories of the causes and consequences of death anxiety in adult life, and a closing chapter gives an overview of death education and how this affects attitudes towards death and dying.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1317763661
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Presenting a broad coverage of this major area of studies on death and dying, this book provides a systematic presentation of the six most widely used and best validated measures of death anxiety, threat and fear. These chapters consider the available data on the psychometric properties of each instrument and summarize research using them, and also supply a copy of the instrument with scoring keys - to facilitate their use. In addition, other chapters make use of the instrumentation by pursuing questions of applied significance in various health care settings nursing homes, psychotherapy, death education, near death experiences, persons with AIDS, experiences of bereaved young adults.; An introductory chapter introduces the major philosophical and psychological theories of the causes and consequences of death anxiety in adult life, and a closing chapter gives an overview of death education and how this affects attitudes towards death and dying.
Death Anxiety
Author: Richard Lonetto
Publisher: Old Tfi Soc Sci
ISBN:
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Publisher: Old Tfi Soc Sci
ISBN:
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 176
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Psychosocial Correlates of Death Anxiety in the Elderly
Author: Frances Marie Kovalsky
Publisher:
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Category : Death
Languages : en
Pages : 192
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Publisher:
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Category : Death
Languages : en
Pages : 192
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Religious Correlates of Death Anxiety in High School Seniors
Author: Patrick J. Kirk
Publisher:
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Category : Death
Languages : en
Pages : 22
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Publisher:
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Category : Death
Languages : en
Pages : 22
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Correlates of Death Anxiety
Author: Mary Rosalinda Avila
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Category : Fear of death
Languages : en
Pages : 136
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Publisher:
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Category : Fear of death
Languages : en
Pages : 136
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Reaction Time Measures of Death Attitudes
Author: Jonathan F. Bassett
Publisher:
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Category : Death
Languages : en
Pages : 280
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Publisher:
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Category : Death
Languages : en
Pages : 280
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International Perspective on Death Anxiety
Author: Nutankumar S. Thingujam
Publisher: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
ISBN: 9783659162022
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
The book, International Perspective on Death Anxiety provides an overview of the perspectives on death and death anxiety from the Eastern and Western literature available in the psychological, philosophical and religious sources. Several measurements of death anxiety and death depression are provided along with the test items. Research findings on death anxiety from around the world are reviewed with reference to group differences (gender, religion, and age) and several correlates. Finally, new findings on correlates of death anxiety in India are presented with special reference to the relatively disturbed and peaceful areas. To be specific, death anxiety's correlation with gender, Type A personality, self-esteem, mental health, physical health, beliefs in religion and social relation are provided in Indian context. The book will be useful for counselors, psychotherapists, psychologists, psychiatrists, psychiatric social workers, religious scholars, and philosophers.
Publisher: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
ISBN: 9783659162022
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
The book, International Perspective on Death Anxiety provides an overview of the perspectives on death and death anxiety from the Eastern and Western literature available in the psychological, philosophical and religious sources. Several measurements of death anxiety and death depression are provided along with the test items. Research findings on death anxiety from around the world are reviewed with reference to group differences (gender, religion, and age) and several correlates. Finally, new findings on correlates of death anxiety in India are presented with special reference to the relatively disturbed and peaceful areas. To be specific, death anxiety's correlation with gender, Type A personality, self-esteem, mental health, physical health, beliefs in religion and social relation are provided in Indian context. The book will be useful for counselors, psychotherapists, psychologists, psychiatrists, psychiatric social workers, religious scholars, and philosophers.
Correlates of Death Anxiety in Hospice Staff
Author: Helen Bess Battiste
Publisher:
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Category : Death
Languages : en
Pages : 110
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Publisher:
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Category : Death
Languages : en
Pages : 110
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