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Death Orientation in the Suicide Intervention Worker.
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In this article, an examination of the death concerns of suicide intervention workers was undertaken, and it was found that crisis workers have consistently higher apprehension about their own mortality, but do not differ from controls in their degree of concern about the deaths of others.Abstract:
In light of the apparently important contribution of a counselor's personal characteristics to his/her clinical effectiveness, an examination of the death concerns of suicide intervention workers was undertaken. Results suggest that, relative to controls, crisis workers have consistently higher apprehension about their own mortality, but do not differ from controls in their degree of concern about the deaths of others. The significance of these findings for the selection and training of suicide counselors is noted, and the nature of current measures of death concern is briefly discussed.read more
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Psychological Research on Death Attitudes: An Overview and Evaluation.
TL;DR: The authors review the large and multifaceted literature on death anxiety, fear, threat and acceptance, focusing on the attitudes toward death and dying of relevant professional and patient groups, and the relationship of death concern to aging, physical and mental health, religiosity, and terror management strategies.
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Elements of death anxiety and meanings of death
James A. Thorson,F. C. Powell +1 more
TL;DR: Variation in death anxiety by age confirms Butler's contention that the life review helps the aged to resolve conflicts and relieve anxiety.
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The collett-lester fear of death scale: The original version and a revision
TL;DR: In this paper, the Collett-Lester fear of death scale has been reviewed and a revised version of the scale is presented. But, the revised scale requires a more balanced number of items in each subscale, and a simplified scoring system.
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Sex differences in death anxiety: Testing the emotional expressiveness hypothesis
TL;DR: For instance, this paper found that women scored higher than men on the affectively oriented Death Anxiety Scale, but not on the more cognitively oriented Threat Index, and this pattern of findings remained unchanged once they statistically controlled self-disclosure and social desirability.
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Convergent and discriminant validation by the multitrait-multimethod matrix.
TL;DR: This transmutability of the validation matrix argues for the comparisons within the heteromethod block as the most generally relevant validation data, and illustrates the potential interchangeability of trait and method components.
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The construction and validation of a Death Anxiety Scale.
TL;DR: The construction and validation of a Death Anxiety Scale and its application to clinical practice are described.
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The Fear of Death and the Fear of Dying
Lora-Jean Collett,David Lester +1 more
TL;DR: The Fear of Death and the Fear of Dying: A Treatise on the Psychology of Fear, Volume 2, pp. 179-181.
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Personal Constructs, Threat and Attitudes toward Death:
TL;DR: In this article, the authors introduced a personal construct approach to the assessment of threat of death, referred to as the Threat Index, to a number of self-report variables, including the Lester Fear of Death Scale, and the Templer Death Anxiety Scale.
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Convergent Validity, Situational Stability and Meaningfulness of the Threat Index
TL;DR: In this paper, a pair of related experiments examined the psychometric properties on the Threat Index (TI), a theoretically based scale for the assessment of threat of death, and revealed that extremity scoring revealed that bo...