A Group Desensitization Procedure for the Reduction of Death Anxiety

1982 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronald L. Peal ◽  
Paul J. Handal ◽  
Frank H. Gilner
Keyword(s):  
Death Anxiety ◽  
Systematic Desensitization ◽  
Criterion Measure ◽  
Additional Investigation ◽  
High Death ◽  
The Relationship

This study used three measures of death anxiety to investigate the effectiveness of group systematic desensitization in reducing death anxiety in high death anxious participants. Results revealed that desensitization was superior to both a relaxation and test-retest group in reducing death anxiety when the revised Livingston and Zimet DAS was the criterion measure. Mixed results were obtained when either the Templer DAS or Feifel and Branscomb's CWIT was the criterion measure. Discussion focused on possible reasons for these results and the need for additional investigation regarding both the use of group desensitization and the relationship among the three measures of death anxiety.

The Relationship between Death Anxiety and Mental Health/Distress

1991 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
William White ◽  
Paul J. Handal
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Death Anxiety ◽  
The Other ◽  
Health Distress ◽  
High Death ◽  
Two Measures ◽  
Methodological Problems ◽  
Mental Health Distress ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Interpretation Of Results

This study systematically examined the relationship between death anxiety and mental health/distress and controlled for methodological problems present in the literature. Specifically, two measures of death anxiety were used-both had recommended cut-off scores for high death anxiety. Both positive and negative aspects of adjustment were assessed, and a valid clinically meaningful cut-off score for distress was employed. Results revealed high death-anxious females were statistically and clinically more distressed and were significantly less satisfied with life than low death-anxious females. Similar results were obtained for males on one death-anxiety measure; a similar trend was found on the other measure. Discussion focuses on the interpretation of results.

Thinking about the Unthinkable: The Relationship between Death Anxiety and Cognitive/Emotional Responses to the Threat of Nuclear War

1988 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-61 ◽  
Author(s):  
Scott B. Hamilton ◽  
William G. Keilin ◽  
Thomas A. Knox
Keyword(s):  
Information Seeking ◽  
Death Anxiety ◽  
Multivariate Analyses ◽  
Emotional Responses ◽  
Nuclear War ◽  
Full Sample ◽  
High Death ◽  
Strategic Policy ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Policy Proposals

In order to evaluate the relationship between death anxiety and cognitive/emotional responses to the threat of nuclear war, 345 college students completed the Templer Death Anxiety Scale (DAS) and a multifaceted questionnaire which included items concerning personal reactions, predictions, and opinions about nuclear war. Full sample correlations as well as multivariate analyses of high and low death-anxious groups indicated that death anxiety was positively related to nuclear anxiety, but negligibly associated with perceptions of political efficacy and support for specific strategic policy proposals. Moreover, although students in both groups indicated that it was “unlikely” that they would survive a nuclear war, in comparison to low death-anxious participants, those with high death anxiety reported a significantly lower desire to survive such a war. Results are discussed with regard to information-seeking coping strategies, repressive defensive structures, post-nuclear death perceptions, and the need for additional empirical research.

Poor Acceptance of the Past is Related to Depressive Symptoms in Older Adults

GeroPsych ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 246-251
Author(s):  
Gozde Cetinkol ◽  
Gulbahar Bastug ◽  
E. Tugba Ozel Kizil
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Regression Analysis ◽  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Death Anxiety ◽  
Geriatric Depression ◽  
Ego Integrity ◽  
The Past ◽  
Depressed Group ◽  
Total Death ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract. Depression in older adults can be explained by Erikson’s theory on the conflict of ego integrity versus hopelessness. The study investigated the relationship between past acceptance, hopelessness, death anxiety, and depressive symptoms in 100 older (≥50 years) adults. The total Beck Hopelessness (BHS), Geriatric Depression (GDS), and Accepting the Past (ACPAST) subscale scores of the depressed group were higher, while the total Death Anxiety (DAS) and Reminiscing the Past (REM) subscale scores of both groups were similar. A regression analysis revealed that the BHS, DAS, and ACPAST predicted the GDS. Past acceptance seems to be important for ego integrity in older adults.

scholarly journals Exploring the relationship between spiritual well-being and death anxiety in patients with gynecological cancer: a cross-section study

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yue Feng ◽  
Xingcan Liu ◽  
Tangwei Lin ◽  
Biru Luo ◽  
Qianqian Mou ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cancer Patients ◽  
Cross Section ◽  
Death Anxiety ◽  
Religious Beliefs ◽  
Gynecological Cancer ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Life Questionnaire ◽  
Section Study ◽  
Spiritual Well Being ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract Background In recent years, spiritual well-being has gradually gained the attention of health care providers in China, especially those in oncology departments, who have recognized the importance of improving spiritual well-being in cancer patients. Since most of the current research on spiritual well-being has been carried out in areas with religious beliefs, this study was conducted in the context of no development of formal religion. The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between death anxiety and spiritual well-being and the related factors of spiritual well-being among gynecological cancer patients. Methods This cross-section study was conducted among 586 gynecological cancer patients. The European Organization for Research and Treatment for Cancer Quality of Life Questionnaire-spiritual well-being32 (EORTC QLQ-SWB32) and Templer's Death Anxiety Scale (T-DAS) were used to measure spiritual well-being and death anxiety. The Multiple Linear Regression Model was used to determine the relationship between spiritual well-being and death anxiety. Results For all participants, the highest QLQ-SWB32 centesimal score was 75.13 on the Relationship with Other scale, and the lowest was 60.33 on the Relationship with Someone or Something Greater Scale. The mean Death Anxiety score was 5.31 (SD 3.18). We found that Relationship with Someone or Something Greater was the only scale not associated with death anxiety. Overall, patients with lower death anxiety have a higher level of spiritual well-being. Besides, a high Relationship with Other score was associated with living with a partner (B = 2.471, P < 0.001) and married (B = -6.475, P = 0.001). Patients with higher Global-SWB were retired (B = 0.387, P = 0.019). Conclusions Our study found that the spiritual well-being of patients with gynecological cancer in China was no worse than in other countries with religious beliefs and patients with lower death anxiety have a higher level of spiritual well-being. Clinical staff should pay attention to the spiritual health of cancer patients, and spiritual care should be regarded as an essential element in cancer care.

Ability of the Army GT Score to Predict College Grades

1969 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Maxwell
Keyword(s):  
Predictive Validity ◽  
College Courses ◽  
Criterion Measure ◽  
Course Grades ◽  
College Course ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
College Grades

This study was designed to test the predictive validity of the U. S. Army's GT score with college course grades as the criterion measure. The 59 Ss had completed 196 college courses. The relationship between the GT score and grades earned was found to be significant.

scholarly journals Traumatic life experiences and religiosity in eight countries

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Jong ◽  
Adam Baimel ◽  
Robert M Ross ◽  
Ryan McKay ◽  
Matthias Bluemke ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Life Satisfaction ◽  
Death Anxiety ◽  
Religious Beliefs ◽  
Life Experiences ◽  
The United States ◽  
Affective Traits ◽  
The Relationship

We present two datasets from a project about the relationship between traumatic life experiences and religiosity. These include data from 1,754 individuals in the United States (n = 322), Brazil (n = 205), China (n = 202), India (n = 205), Indonesia (n = 205), Russia (n = 205), Thailand (n = 205), and Turkey (n = 205). Surveys were consistent across samples: they include measures of traumatic life experiences, negative affective traits, existential security, life satisfaction, death anxiety, and various religious beliefs, attitudes, and behaviours. Psychometric evaluations of measures of supernatural belief and death anxiety were conducted.

I do not need to wash my hands because I will go to Heaven anyway: A study on belief in God and the afterlife, death anxiety, and COVID-19 protective behaviors

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dariusz Drążkowski ◽  
Radosław Trepanowski
Keyword(s):  
Structural Equation Modeling ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Death Anxiety ◽  
Religious Beliefs ◽  
Severe Disease ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Protective Behaviors ◽  
Belief In God ◽  
Modeling Analysis ◽  
The Relationship

This study examined the relationship between religious beliefs and protective behaviors during the COVID-19 pandemic. A study was conducted with 551 Polish participants. According to structural equation modeling analysis, being a believer is positively associated with belief in an afterlife, which, like death anxiety, but independent of it, is associated with perceiving COVID-19 as a non-severe disease, which is associated with low fear of COVID-19, and disregard for protective behaviors. Thus, our results allowed us to distinguish belief in God and the afterlife from death anxiety as two independent determinants of compliance with COVID-19 protective behaviors.

scholarly journals Relationship between meaning in life and death anxiety in the elderly: self-esteem as a mediator

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jiaxi Zhang ◽  
Jiaxi Peng ◽  
Pan Gao ◽  
He Huang ◽  
Yunfei Cao ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Meaning In Life ◽  
Death Anxiety ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Study Data ◽  
Life Questionnaire ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
Meaning In Life Questionnaire ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract Background Death anxiety is a common phenomenon in all societies. Older adults may be more prone to death anxiety than their younger counterparts; however, death anxiety among older adults is not well understood. This study explores the relationship between meaning in life, self-esteem, and death anxiety in senior citizens in China. Methods A total of 283 older adults participated in this study; data were collected via the Meaning in Life Questionnaire, the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale, and the Death Anxiety Scale. Results Results show that the dimensions of meaning in life, presence of meaning (r = − 0.43, p < 0.01), search for meaning (r = − 0.31, p < 0.01), and self-esteem (r = − 0.54, p < 0.01) were each negatively correlated with death anxiety. Regression analysis reveals that meaning in life significantly predicted self-esteem and death anxiety (F = 45.70, p < 0.01; R2 = 0.33). Path analysis indicated that self-esteem either completely or partially mediated the effects of meaning in life on death anxiety in older adults. Conclusions Overall, meaning in life appears to be significantly correlated with death anxiety in older adults, and self-esteem can mediate this effect.

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