Defending against death anxiety: The impact of open-ended writing prompts on the fundamentalism of mortality-primed religious participants

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Long ◽  
Allison Crews ◽  
Robin Dann ◽  
Emilia Dewi ◽  
David Rivera ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Death Anxiety ◽  
Writing Prompts ◽  
The Impact

Metaphysical Beliefs as Predictors of Death Anxiety

1992 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 95-107 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. K. Naidu ◽  
Ambalika Sinha
Keyword(s):  
Death Anxiety ◽  
The Other ◽  
High Exposure ◽  
Functional Roles ◽  
Significant Relationships ◽  
Attributes Of God ◽  
Low Exposure ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Impact

The impact of four metaphysical beliefs on death anxiety was investigated. Beliefs about the existence and attributes of God, afterlife, and consequences of suffering were chosen for study. It was hypothesized that any belief which assures the individual a continued existence beyond death would reduce the degree of anxiety felt on encountering death-related stimuli. A test including pictures depicting death and non-death scenes was constructed to measure death anxiety. The sample included 120 householders (60 heads of unsettled and 60 heads of settled families). Half of them lived in high exposure to death sight areas and the other half lived in low exposure areas. Subjects from only low exposure areas revealed significant relationships between beliefs and death anxiety. The results of this study suggest that the beliefs play functional roles that are different for people with different needs.

scholarly journals COVID-19 and Death Anxiety: The Impact on Students’ Appraisals to Completing Advance Directives

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 133-134
Author(s):  
Carlyn Vogel ◽  
Debra Dobbs ◽  
Maureen Templeman ◽  
Victoria Marino ◽  
William Haley
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Advance Directives ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Death Anxiety ◽  
Stress And Coping ◽  
Transactional Model ◽  
Serious Illness ◽  
Recorded Lecture ◽  
And Coping ◽  
The Impact

Abstract This study examined possible effects of COVID-19 on students’ appraisals, coping, and responses to completing advance directives (ADs). We used the transactional model of stress and coping to explore 93 undergraduate students’ responses to an AD assignment completed in an undergraduate course during COVID-19. Students watched a recorded lecture, read content related to ADs, and examined a sample copy of a 5 Wishes document. Students completed an assignment reflecting on reactions to completing ADs. Content analysis of 65 responses indicated almost 10% of students mentioned COVID-19 or the pandemic as a reason to complete ADs. Approximately 18% mentioned their youth and 40% mentioned sudden or serious illness as reasons to complete ADs. Nearly 30% mentioned death anxiety as a reason for being unprepared to complete ADs. Instructors should consider ways to inform and help students process their emotions given contextual factors (e.g. the pandemic) when teaching about ADs.

scholarly journals The Impact Of Death Anxiety On Quality Of Life Among Cancer Patients: A Case Of Bahawalpur And Multan District

2021 ◽  
Vol 58 (1) ◽  
pp. 5473-5477
Author(s):  
Siraj Hussain Et al.
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Cancer Patients ◽  
Death Anxiety ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Cross Sectional Survey ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
The Difference ◽  
The Impact

The current study aimed to carved the impact of death anxiety on quality of life among cancer patients. The study focused to find out the difference of death anxiety in the context of gender and socio-demographic factors; and to seek out the impact of death anxiety on the quality of life of cancer patients. Purposive sampling technique was opted to collect the N= 110 cancer patients from Victoria hospital Bahawalpur and the Minar hospital Multan though the cross-sectional survey research design. The instrument was adopted from Lemming fear of death anxiety scale and WHOQOL. To cognizant the study Correlation t-test was computed which put forth that women cancer patients have a positive correlation between death anxiety and the quality of life.  The conclusion is there is an impact of death anxiety on quality of life among patients who were hospitalized. Death anxiety has a negative impact on quality of life among cancer patients. Patients both male and female experience death anxiety at a certain level that may impact their quality of life, cancer patients who were hospitalized they have more death anxiety than other cancer patients. Septate Psychological counseling sessions can assist to decline the death anxiety among cancer patients.

scholarly journals Exploring the Contemporary Stage and Scripts for the Enactment of Dying Roles: A Narrative Review of the Literature

2017 ◽  
Vol 76 (4) ◽  
pp. 328-350 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Lowrie ◽  
Robin Ray ◽  
David Plummer ◽  
Matthew Yau
Keyword(s):  
End Of Life ◽  
Death Anxiety ◽  
Life Experiences ◽  
Death And Dying ◽  
Narrative Review ◽  
Review Of The Literature ◽  
Actual Experience ◽  
The Impact

This narrative review explores the literature regarding the drama of dying from several academic perspectives. Three key themes were identified including “The impact of blurred boundaries on roles and transitions,” “The orchestration of death and dying through time,” and “Contemporary dying and new machinery of control.” This review reveals the manner in which tightly scripted dying roles serve the needs of the living to a greater extent than those of the dying, by ensuring the depiction of both dying and death as phenomena which have been brought under the control of the living, thereby countering death anxiety. An incongruence between the actual experience of dying and contemporary dying scripts is also highlighted. The authors argue that this incongruence is hidden from the broader societal audience through the maintenance of a dying role that demands serenity and acceptance, thus downplaying or even hiding the actual end-of-life experiences of the dying themselves.

The impact of death and dying counseling groups on death anxiety in college students

1978 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 381-391 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacqueline Beau Bohart ◽  
Bruce W. Bergland
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Death Anxiety ◽  
Death And Dying ◽  
Counseling Groups ◽  
The Impact

Traumatic Stress and Death Anxiety among Community Residents Exposed to a Train Crash

2002 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 133-147 ◽  
Author(s):  
Man Cheung Chung ◽  
Julie Werrett ◽  
Yvette Easthope ◽  
Steven Farmer ◽  
Catherine Chung
Keyword(s):  
Traumatic Stress ◽  
Death Anxiety ◽  
Psychiatric Patients ◽  
General Health Questionnaire ◽  
Apartment House ◽  
Impact Of Event Scale ◽  
Event Scale ◽  
Community Residents ◽  
Total Death ◽  
The Impact

This study aimed to investigate the association between traumatic stress and death anxiety among residents who were exposed to a train crash in Stafford, England. Sixty-six community residents were interviewed using the Impact of Event Scale (IES), the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ) and the Death Anxiety Scale (DAS). The results showed that the IES scores of the community residents were significantly lower than the standardized Stress Clinic samples, while they were significantly higher than the standardized medical student samples. Thirty-five percent of residents scored at or above the GHQ cutoff point. The community residents' total death anxiety score was significantly higher than the standardized sample of apartment house residents and was no different from the sample of psychiatric patients. Correlation tests showed no association between death anxiety and traumatic stress. The article ended with some remarks on issues relating to data comparison.

scholarly journals Reducing Death Anxiety: The Impact of Advanced Care Planning

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kendra Hollenbeck ◽  
Tom Gutwein
Keyword(s):  
Informed Consent ◽  
Death Anxiety ◽  
Medical Center ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Care Planning ◽  
Advanced Care Planning ◽  
Improve Quality ◽  
Advanced Directives ◽  
The Impact

Background/Objective: Death anxiety affects multiple areas of patient’s physical and mental health. Reducing this phenomenon has the potential to improve quality of end of life (EOL). The effects of spirituality, age, self-esteem, biological sex, presence of symptoms and level of isolation have been previously studied. Advanced care planning (ACP), a simple intervention, which has known positive impacts on quality of EOL by decreasing healthcare costs and undesired hospitalizations, however, only 33% of the population has completed it. This study will examine the correlation between death anxiety and ACP. We hypothesize that there will be a statistically significant lower level of death anxiety in participants with ACP.  Methods: The study population will include patients presenting to the Parkview Regional Medical Center ED who are ≥65, with a sample size of 1,000. We will use a translated and adapted version of the 17 question Likert-type Scale of Death Anxiety; developed and validated by Cai et al. in 2017. It will be presented via REDCap and will include electronic signature of informed consent. Finally, we will include questions about ACP and advanced directives. Participants will also complete a basic demographic survey to account for confounding factors. Analysis will include a Mann Whitney test, univariate and multivariate regressions.   Results: This project resulted in a IRB submission drafts of a study protocol, informed consent, SDA survey and REDCap data collection tool. The researchers are seeking Parkview Health-IRB approval in Fall 2020, with an anticipated study start date of Spring 2021.   Impact: This project has the potential to improve quality of life by decreasing death anxiety and resulting negative stress reactions. Interventions for decreasing death anxiety have not been extensively studied so directions for future research are broad and could include impacts of ACP in varying ages and contexts outside of the ED.  

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