Repressed Fear of Inexistence and its Hypnotic Recovery in Religious Students

1986 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert G. Kunzendorf
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Death Anxiety ◽  
Fear Of Death ◽  
Hypnotic Responsiveness

When college students were hypnotized and instructed to rate their “subconscious” fears of death, they expressed greater fear, of inexistence than when they were awake. At the same time, hypnotized students expressed no greater fear of death-related possibilities other than the possibility of inexistence. The hypnotically elicited fear of inexistence was marginally associated with a stronger belief in an afterlife and was significantly associated with greater hypnotic responsiveness. Such findings contradict the orthodox religious position: that death anxiety is truly eradicated, not merely repressed, by belief in an afterlife. Such findings also contradict the orthodox psychoanalytic position: that conscious death anxiety is secondarily derived from the libidinous deprivations of a subconscious mind that cannot fear its own death. Instead, the present findings suggest that the subconscious fear of inexistence is a primary-not a derived-phenomenon, from which religious and other death-denying behaviors may be derived.

Death Anxiety, Death Depression, and Death Obsession: A General Factor of Death Distress is Evident: A Reply

2004 ◽  
Vol 94 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 1212-1214 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahmed M. Abdel-Khalek
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Death Anxiety ◽  
Death And Dying ◽  
Depression Scale ◽  
Fear Of Death ◽  
General Factor ◽  
Death Depression

A sample of 75 (16 men, and 59 women) Kuwaiti college students responded to Templer's and Collett-Lester Death Anxiety Scales, Templer, et al.'s Death Depression Scale and Abdel-Khalek's Death Obsession Scale. A general high-loaded factor of death distress was extracted using the total scores. However, in using the Collett-Lester four subscales, the Fear of Death and Dying of Others loaded on a second factor.

The Value of the Self in Relation to Fear of Death

1981 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward Aronow ◽  
Alan Rauchway ◽  
Marshall Peller ◽  
Anthony De Vito
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Opposite Direction ◽  
Death Anxiety ◽  
Anxiety Scale ◽  
The Self ◽  
Fear Of Death ◽  
Self In Relation ◽  
Theoretical Position

A theoretical position on death anxiety advanced by previous authors was tested in this study. Diggory and Rothman reasoned that we try to extend objects that are valued highly, while those of low value are treated with indifference or destroyed. They therefore theorized that individuals who place a high value on the self would be more afraid of death. This was tested by correlating the Templer death anxiety scale with seven self-related measures. The participants in the study were 117 college students. The death anxiety scale was found to correlate significantly with self-related measures, but in the opposite direction from what was expected on the basis of the theory. The seven self-related measures were found to overlap extensively. The results do not support the theory, and were discussed in terms of a neuroticism factor and Frankl's “will to meaning.”

Belief in Afterlife and Death Anxiety: Correlates and Comparisons

1985 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-75 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronald H. Aday
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Educational Level ◽  
Death Anxiety ◽  
Church Attendance ◽  
Family Income ◽  
Church Membership ◽  
Fear Of Death ◽  
Control Variables ◽  
Key Variables ◽  
The Relationship

Previous investigations of the relationship between death anxiety and belief in afterlife have often yielded inconsistent results. In an attempt to establish a common linkage between the two variables, this study investigated key variables associated with death anxiety and belief in afterlife among a group of college students. The respondent's sex, race, educational level, family income, church membership, frequency of church attendance, and intensity of religious beliefs were employed as control variables. Results support the notion that belief in afterlife is primarily a function of religion and not, at least directly, a correlate of fear of death. While all the control variables were found to be significantly related to either death anxiety or belief in afterlife, only church attendance was found to be significantly related to both.

Convergent Validity of the Collett-Lester Fear of Death and Templer Death Anxiety Scales in Egyptian Male College Students

2002 ◽  
Vol 90 (3) ◽  
pp. 849-850 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahmed M. Abdel-Khalek
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Convergent Validity ◽  
Death Anxiety ◽  
Anxiety Scale ◽  
Fear Of Death ◽  
Male College ◽  
Pearson Correlations ◽  
Male College Students

The Collett-Lester Fear of Death Scale and the Templer Death Anxiety Scale were administered to 57 male Egyptian undergraduates. Pearson correlations between the total score on the Templer's scale and the four subscales of Collett-Lester's Fear of Self death, Self dying, Other's death, and Other's dying were .54, .55, .52, and .56, respectively, while the correlation between the total scores on the Collett-Lester and Templer scales was .73, denoting the convergent validity of the Collett-Lester scale against the Templer scale as criterion.

Relationship of Fear of Death and Level of Self-Esteem in College Students

1978 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 419-422 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen F. Davis ◽  
Dan A. Martin ◽  
Cean T. Wilee ◽  
James W. Voorhees
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Black Males ◽  
Death Anxiety ◽  
Negative Relationship ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Fear Of Death ◽  
Black And White ◽  
White Males ◽  
Males And Females ◽  
Relationship Of

Self-esteem and death anxiety instruments were administered to a total of 383 undergraduates; black and white, males and females were included in the sample. Consistent with previous data, higher scores on death anxiety were shown by female subjects. Black males displayed significantly higher self-esteem scores. An analysis of subgroups low and high in self-esteem produced support for a negative relationship between level of self-esteem and death anxiety.

Comment on “Convergent Validity of the Collett-Lester Fear of Death and Templer Death Anxiety Scales in Egyptian Male College Students”

2002 ◽  
Vol 91 (3) ◽  
pp. 940-940 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Lester
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Convergent Validity ◽  
Death Anxiety ◽  
Anxiety Scale ◽  
Fear Of Death ◽  
Male College ◽  
Male College Students

Correlations for scores on Templer's Death Anxiety Scale and the Collett-Lester Fear of Death Scale indicate a lack of validity for Templer's scale.

Variations in Death Anxiety Related to College Students' Sex, Major Field of Study, and Certain Personality Traits

1977 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 857-858 ◽  
Author(s):  
James A. Thorson
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Graduate Students ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
Death Anxiety ◽  
Fear Of Death ◽  
Field Of Study ◽  
Major Field ◽  
Edwards Personal Preference Schedule ◽  
College Of Business

208 undergraduate and graduate students completed the Edwards Personal Preference Schedule and a scale designed to measure death anxiety. Females and persons high in the trait of succorance had higher death anxiety, while males and persons high in endurance, aggression, and exhibition indicated less death anxiety. Students majoring in social work tended to have higher death anxiety, and students in the College of Business had significantly lower fear of death.

What Do Death Anxiety Scales Measure?

2007 ◽  
Vol 101 (3) ◽  
pp. 754-754 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Lester
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Death Anxiety ◽  
Fear Of Death

In a sample of 87 undergraduates (61 women and 26 men; Mage = 21.2 yr., SD = 3.4), scores on the death anxiety scales by Templer and by Abdel-Khalek were more strongly associated with these college students' fear of death for one's own death than for the death of others.

The Media's Influence on College Students' Views of Death

2002 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer King ◽  
Bert Hayslip
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Death Anxiety ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Media Exposure ◽  
Fear Of Death ◽  
Media Consumption ◽  
The Unconscious ◽  
The Media ◽  
Neo Five Factor Inventory

This study examined the media's influence on 147 college students' views of death. Utilizing the revised Collett-Lester Fear of Death Scale, the Incomplete Sentence Blank task, the NEO Five-Factor Inventory measure of Anxiety, the Byrne Repression-Sensitization Scale, and the Media Consumption Scale, a series of MANCOVAs indicated that greater death anxiety was related to the portrayal of group deaths in the media. Results indicated that in some cases, general references to death by the media may bring death fears into consciousness and have no effect on the unconscious, yet specific, real-life examples may increase both unconscious and conscious death fears. In general, conscious and unconscious death fears increased with greater death related media exposure.

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