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The Correlations of Attitudes toward Suicide with Death Anxiety, Religiosity, and Personal Closeness to Suicide:
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This paper found that the more supportive students were about the right of people in general to commit suicide and the more situations they felt would justify their own suicide, the more anxious they felt about death, the less strongly they were committed to a religion, and more seriously they had thought about committing suicide.Abstract:
College students from four different institutions were asked to report their attitudes toward suicide, their anxiety about death, the degree of their religiosity, the substance of their religious beliefs, and the seriousness with which they had considered suicide. The more supportive students were about the right of people in general to commit suicide and the more situations they felt would justify their own suicide, the more anxious they felt about death, the less strongly they were committed to a religion, and the more seriously they had thought about committing suicide. A discussion about the ramifications of these results for the college campus is included.read more
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Religious Commitment and Mental Health: A Review of the Empirical Literature:
TL;DR: This paper found that most studies linking religious commitment to psychopathology have employed mental health measures that they have called "soft variables" that attempt to measure theoretical constructs, whereas most of the research linking religion to positive mental health is on hard variables, that is, real life behavioral events which can be reliably ob-served and measured and which are unambiguous in their significance.
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Fearlessness about death: the psychometric properties and construct validity of the revision to the acquired capability for suicide scale.
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TL;DR: Findings support the viability of the ACSS-FAD, indicating the scale has a replicable factor structure that generalizes across males and females and is substantively related to the construct of fearlessness about death.
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Religious commitment, mental health, and prosocial behavior: A review of the empirical literature.
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Religion and spirituality along the suicidal path.
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TL;DR: Indications for future research, such as more studies on nonreligious forms of spirituality and the use of qualitative methodology to achieve a better and deeper understanding of the spiritual dimension of suicidal behavior and treatment, are offered.
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Meanings of death and intrinsic religiosity.
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TL;DR: Responses who were older and who were higher in intrinsic religiosity were significantly lower in death anxiety andDiffering constructions of death and dying are examined.
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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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Perspectives on Death in Relation to Powerlessness and form of Personal Religion
Barbara Minton,Bernard Spilka +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the pattern of relationships among multidimensional measures of religion and death outlooks and found that the possible involvement of powerlessness as a confounding factor was also evaluated.