Death Anxiety in Adolescents: The Contributions of Bereavement and Religiosity

2007 ◽  
Vol 55 (3) ◽  
pp. 169-184 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carla Ens ◽  
John B. Bond
Keyword(s):  
Private Schools ◽  
Death Anxiety ◽  
Death Experience ◽  
Anxiety Levels

Possible relationships between bereavement and religiosity to death anxiety levels of adolescents were investigated. Scales measuring religiosity, bereavement, and death anxiety were incorporated into one questionnaire. Two hundred and twenty-six adolescents between the ages of 11 and 18 participated in the study based in urban and rural private schools within Manitoba. Females exhibited significantly higher death anxiety levels than did males; differences between the death anxiety levels of adolescents having a no-previous-death-experience death and those who had experienced a familial death were not significant; while religiosity levels were significantly higher for students attending religion-based schools, the relationships between measurements of religiosity and death anxiety were weak. Grief due to bereavement was the major factor in determining death anxiety for the adolescent.

The Psychological Correlates of Decreased Death Anxiety After a Near-Death Experience: The Role of Self-Esteem, Mindfulness, and Death Representations

2019 ◽  
pp. 002216781989210
Author(s):  
Simone Bianco ◽  
Ines Testoni ◽  
Arianna Palmieri ◽  
Sheldon Solomon ◽  
Joshua Hart
Keyword(s):  
Death Anxiety ◽  
Terror Management Theory ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Fear Of Death ◽  
Psychological Consequences ◽  
Psychological Correlates ◽  
Death Experience ◽  
Near Death Experiences ◽  
Future Theory

Near-death experiences (NDE) are intense events that can have profound psychological consequences. Although decreased fear of death after an NDE is a well-documented phenomenon, it is unclear what psychological factors are associated with reduced death anxiety. In this study, grounded in terror management theory, we compared 102 people who had an NDE with 104 individuals who did not. Participants completed measures of death anxiety, self-esteem, mindfulness, and death representation. Results indicated that people who had an NDE had lower fear of death, higher self-esteem, greater mindfulness, and viewed death more as a transition rather than as absolute annihilation. Subsequent analyses found that NDE had a direct effect on death anxiety, and that the effect of NDE on death anxiety was also mediated by indirect effects on self-esteem and death representation. Implications of these findings are considered, limitations of the present study are acknowledged, and suggestions for future theory and research are proffered.

The Relationship of Sex-Role Orientation to Death Anxiety in Middle-Aged Males

1984 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 355-367 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ann M. Downey
Keyword(s):  
Death Anxiety ◽  
Sex Role ◽  
Control Variable ◽  
Role Orientation ◽  
Middle Aged ◽  
Sex Role Orientation ◽  
Death Experience ◽  
Nonprobability Sample ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

The purpose of this study was to determine how sex-role orientation was related to death anxiety among a group of middle-aged males. A nonprobability sample of 237 male volunteers between the ages of forty and fifty-nine, of whom 88.7 percent were engaged in professional occupations, completed the Bem Sex-Role Inventory (BSRI) and Boyar's Fear of Death Scale (FODS). In addition, “death experience” was measured by three items and was employed as a control variable in determining the relationship between sex-role orientation and death anxiety. Results of this investigation indicated that “death experience” or the amount of contact the male has had with death was not related to death anxiety. Additionally, those middle-aged males with a traditional male sex-role orientation (high masculinity/low femininity) did not exhibit higher death anxiety scores than those males with an androgynous orientation (high masculinity/high femininity) as was predicted. Thus, in this sample of professional middle-aged males, the men with a traditional sex-role orientation did not differ from those males who were androgynous with respect to death anxiety levels.

Death Experience and Death Anxiety among Nurses and Nursing Students

1977 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
John A. Denton ◽  
Vance B. Wisenbaker
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Students ◽  
Death Anxiety ◽  
Death Experience

Death Experience and Death Anxiety among Nurses and Nursing Students

1977 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
John A. Denton ◽  
Vance B. Wisenbaker
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Students ◽  
Death Anxiety ◽  
Death Experience

scholarly journals The Death Anxiety Level of Nurses During The COVID-19 Pandemic And Its Effect On The Fear Level Of Their Children Aged 6-10 Years

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deniz Yiğit ◽  
AYFER ACIKGOZ
Keyword(s):  
Death Anxiety ◽  
Long Term Care ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Sectional Study ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Term Care ◽  
Fear Level ◽  
High Death ◽  
Anxiety Levels

Introduction: Nurses provide long-term care to patients diagnosed or suspected of COVID-19 during the epidemic. This situation may cause nurses to experience more fear and death anxiety and increase the fear levels of their children. This study was conducted to determine the effect of death anxiety levels of nurses on the fear level of their children during the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: This descriptive and cross-sectional study was carried out online with 362 nurses. Data were collected using an introductory information form, the Death Anxiety Scale, and the Children’s Fear Scale. Results: It was found that the death anxiety levels of nurses and fear levels of their children were high. It was determined that the children of nurses who had high death anxiety had higher fear levels. Conclusions: The findings emphasize the importance of screening nurses’ death anxiety and children’s fear levels during the pandemic period and providing psychological support when necessary. Keywords: COVID-19, Pandemic, Nurse, Child.

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