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Death Threat and Death Concerns in the College Student.
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In this article, a four part investigation of death orientation in college students using the provided-construct form of the Threat Index and the Death Concern Scale was conducted, reporting significant predicted correlations of the threat index with the death concern scale, Trait Anxiety Scale, and Repression-Sensitization Scale.Abstract:
A four part investigation of death orientation in college students using the provided-construct form of the Threat Index and the Death Concern Scale was conducted. Part I investigated the construct validity of the Threat Index, reporting significant predicted correlations of the Threat Index with the Death Concern Scale, Trait Anxiety Scale, and Repression-Sensitization Scale. Part II explored death orientation and personality differences between a Thanatology Group (death education students) and a Control Group. Thanatology students reported significantly lesser death threat and significantly greater death concerns than controls. Part III compared pre-test to post-test changes in death threat and death concerns for the Thanatology Group with pre-post changes for the Control Group. Using analysis of covariance procedures, a significantly greater decline in death threat was obtained in the Thanatology Group relative to the controls. Part IV explored two personality variables–trait anxiety and repression-se...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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The impact of death education
TL;DR: In this article, the impact of death education on affective outcomes was reviewed using meta-analytic procedures and it was found that experiential programs that focus on personal feelings about death were significantly more effective than didactic programs not containing such an emphasis.
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Reduction in death threat as a basis for optimal functioning
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors tested the hypothesis that a positive resolution of the issue of personal mortality enables a person to live a more intense, meaningful life and tested this hypothesis by inviting participation in selected death education experiences designed to produce more positive death orientation and higher levels of psychological functioning, where participants were 96 undergraduate psychology students who participated in a randomly assigned experience: completing a personal obituary, writing a farewell letter, or, for the control group, participating in a stress management experience.
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The Threat Index: A Research Report.
TL;DR: The Threat Index (TI) as mentioned in this paper was developed as a measure of death orientation, theoretically based on George Kelly's personal construct theory (1), and 12 studies have examined the reliability of the TI and the validity of interpreting TI scores as a measuring of death threat.
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A systematic review of the psychometric properties of death anxiety self-report measures.
TL;DR: Overall findings suggest that additional research is needed to establish the psychometric adequacy of death anxiety instruments, especially given increased utilization of these measures in both clinical and research settings.
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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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Relation of the revised repression-sensitization scale to measures of self-description
TL;DR: In this article, an internal consistency item-analysis was carried out for the 182-item Repression-Sensitization Scale (R-S) and a revised scoring key was made, consisting of 127 cross-validated items.
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Death Concern: Measurement and Correlates:
TL;DR: The construction of a Death concern Scale with a high level of internal consistency and stability is described and relationships between the Death Concern Scale and State Anxiety, Trait Anxiety, Manifest Anxiety, Repression-Sensitization, as well as needs Heterosexuality, Succorance, and Change of the Edwards Personal Preference Schedule are presented and discussed.
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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.