To Laugh in the Face of Death: The Games that Lethal People Play

1990 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 225-239 ◽  
Author(s):  
James A. Thorson ◽  
F. C. Powell
Keyword(s):  
Death Anxiety ◽  
Item Analysis ◽  
Young Male ◽  
Fear Of Death ◽  
The Face

A total of 399 individuals completed a lethal-behaviors scale and a measure of death anxiety, which were found to have no significant correlation. Item analysis of the lethal-behaviors scale indicated a number of the best predictors of lethalness. The most lethal individuals in this sample were young, male, and less educated. These people may be exercising both death-denying and fear-of-death-denying behaviors.

Levels of Death Anxiety in Terminally Ill Men: A Pilot Study

1992 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bert Hayslip ◽  
Debra D. Luhr ◽  
Michael M. Beyerlein
Keyword(s):  
Pilot Study ◽  
Death Anxiety ◽  
Terminal Illness ◽  
Terminally Ill ◽  
Fear Of Death ◽  
The Face ◽  
Life Trajectory

Twenty-five men, twelve of whom were healthy and thirteen of whom had been diagnosed with AIDS, were administered measures of overt (Templer DAS) and covert (Incomplete Sentence Blank) fear of death in order to ascertain levels of death anxiety in those with a terminal illness. Results suggested that while men who had AIDS and those who were healthy did not differ in Templer DAS scores, Incomplete Sentence Blank total scores were higher ( p < .01) for males with AIDS. These findings are consistent with the observations of Pattison who suggested that one's life trajectory is redefined when the diagnosis of a terminal illness is made; such persons experience great anxiety, resulting in the denial of their fear in order to maintain a psychological equilibrium in the face of death.

Relationship of Religiosity to Death Anxiety of Middle-Aged Males

1984 ◽  
Vol 54 (3) ◽  
pp. 811-822 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ann M. Downey
Keyword(s):  
Principal Components Analysis ◽  
Principal Components ◽  
Death Anxiety ◽  
Control Variable ◽  
Fear Of Death ◽  
Curvilinear Relationship ◽  
Middle Aged ◽  
Probability Sample ◽  
Components Analysis ◽  
Relationship Of

The purpose of this study was to determine how religiosity was related to death anxiety among a group of middle-aged men. A non-probability sample of 237 male volunteers between the ages of 40 and 59 yr. of whom 88.7% were engaged in professional occupations completed a questionnaire composed of various research instruments. A single composite score for religiosity was obtained through a principal-components analysis of 13 items selected, adjusted, and compiled by Downey (1980) from various religiosity scales. Boyar's Fear of Death Scale assessed death anxiety, while “experience of death” was measured by three items and was utilized as a control variable in determining the association between religiosity and death anxiety. Analysis indicated that “experience of death” or the amount of contact the male has had with death was not related to death anxiety. Data did not support the prediction that those males who were less religious would exhibit higher scores on death anxiety than would those men who were more religious. Further analyses demonstrated a curvilinear relationship between religiosity and death anxiety. The middle-aged men who were moderately religious evidenced a significantly higher fear of death than the men who were either low or high in religiosity.

scholarly journals The Role of Self-Talk in Predicting Death Anxiety, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, and Coping Strategies in the Face of Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Esmaeil Sadri Damirchi ◽  
Arezoo Mojarrad ◽  
Saeed Pireinaladin ◽  
Andrej M M Grjibovski
Keyword(s):  
Coping Strategies ◽  
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder ◽  
Coping Style ◽  
Death Anxiety ◽  
Obsessive Compulsive ◽  
Compulsive Disorder ◽  
Self Talk ◽  
The Face ◽  
And Coping

Objective: Nowadays, the outbreak of Coronavirus (COVID-19) is one of the most stressful resources that has led to the rise of different levels of psychological crisis. In addition to the countries affected by the COVID-19, such as China, European and American countries, Iran has appeared as one of the most affected countries with high infected cases and deaths. Thus, the purpose of this study was to investigate the role of self-talk in predicting death anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and coping strategies in the face of COVID-19. Method: This descriptive and correlational study was conducted on 354 adults living in Ardabil, Iran, who were selected using cluster sampling from 21 January to 19 March 2020. Self-Talk questionnaires, Coping Strategies, Death Anxiety, and Obsessive-Compulsive questionnaires were used for data collection. Descriptive statistics, Pearson correlation, and multiple linear regression were used for data analysis. Results: The findings revealed a significant positive relationship between self-talk and problem-centered coping style. Also, significant negative relationships were found between self-talk and emotional coping style, death anxiety, and obsessive-compulsive disorder. Furthermore, based on the results of the regression test, self-talk predicted problem-centered style, emotional-coping style, death anxiety, and obsessive-compulsive disorder. Conclusion: The results of this study emphasize the need for psychological crisis intervention during the COVID-19 outbreak. Also, this study provides an important step in shifting attention to self-talk skills from sport psychology fields toward clinical psychology, especially about the mental impacts of COVID-19.

A Constant Companion

2020 ◽  
pp. 67-84
Author(s):  
Peter J. Adams
Keyword(s):  
Fear Of Death ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
The Face ◽  
Ongoing Relationship

This chapter starts by asking “If we struggle to speak and think about my-death, how is it possible to engage with it in an ongoing fashion?” It explores the advantages of switching from individualized conceptions of self-identity to relational or social conceptions. In doing so, the focus shifts from individual attributes to the importance of relationships. In applying this to death, the prospect of my-death shifts from being viewed as an aspect or an attribute of being alive to being viewed as an ongoing relationship, a constant presence, that persists from birth and throughout life. The discussion finishes by pointing out that, in the face of ongoing fear of death, for a relationship to form, some way of conceptualizing death through what is referred to as an “enabling frame” is needed before a relationship with my-death becomes achievable.

Death Discomfort Differential

1995 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 295-304 ◽  
Author(s):  
George Triplett ◽  
David Cohen ◽  
Wilbert Reimer ◽  
Sharon Rinaldi ◽  
Curtis Hill ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Death Anxiety ◽  
Depression Scale ◽  
Female Gender ◽  
Anxiety Scale ◽  
Fear Of Death ◽  
Factor Scores ◽  
General Anxiety ◽  
Highly Correlated ◽  
Item Scale ◽  
Death Depression

The differential correlations of death depression and death anxiety were explored. Death anxiety was more highly correlated with general anxiety, the four subscales of the Collett-Lester Fear of Death Scale, female gender, and less religiosity. Death depression was more associated with general depression. Such differentiation could not be made with the raw scores of the Death Depression Scale and the Death Anxiety Scale. A differentiation was made, however, using a new ten-item scale based upon factor scores of the two above scales.

Convergent Validity of the Templer, Collett-Lester, and Arabic Death Anxiety Scales: Rejoinder

2004 ◽  
Vol 94 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 1171-1172 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahmed M. Abdel-Khalek
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Convergent Validity ◽  
Death Anxiety ◽  
Anxiety Scale ◽  
Fear Of Death ◽  
Factorial Validity ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Science Courses ◽  
Pearson Correlations

The Templer Death Anxiety Scale, the Arabic Scale of Death Anxiety by Abdel-Khalek, and the Collett-Lester Fear of Death Scale were administered to a convenient sample of 81 male and female Kuwaiti undergraduates enrolled in social science courses ( M age = 22.0 yr., SD = 2.3). Pearson correlations between the total scores were significant and positive. Only one high-loaded factor was extracted and labeled General Death Anxiety, indicating good convergent and factorial validity of these scales.

Death

2020 ◽  
pp. 117-140
Author(s):  
Stephen E. Rosenbaum
Keyword(s):  
Death Penalty ◽  
Death Anxiety ◽  
Fear Of Death ◽  
Value Judgments ◽  
Life And Death

This article explicates Epicurus’s ambiguous declaration that “death is nothing to us,” discusses its philosophical implications, and answers the most common recent philosophical objections to the view. One barrier to appreciating Epicurus’s view has been lack of understanding what he meant, and the author clarifies Epicurus’s idea using Epicurean texts. Since Epicurus used his view to undermine death anxiety, the author discusses fear of death and how Epicurean thinking treats it. The paper discusses flaws in recent philosophical objections against Epicurus’s view, that it ignores what death deprives people of, that it is incompatible with the wrongness of killing, and that it does not permit certain comparative value judgments about life and death. Since the view has implications for the death penalty, the author discusses those, and urges that Epicurean philosophy of death can profitably illuminate contemporary thinking.

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.

Relationship between the Templer Death Anxiety Scale and the Collett-Lester Fear of Death Scale

1980 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 561-562 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marc Var Go
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Students ◽  
Concurrent Validity ◽  
Death Anxiety ◽  
Death And Dying ◽  
Anxiety Scale ◽  
Fear Of Death ◽  
Undergraduate Nursing Students ◽  
Undergraduate Nursing ◽  
Highly Correlated ◽  
The Relationship

The present study investigated the relationship between the Templer Death Anxiety Scale and the four subscales of the Collett-Lester Fear of Death Scale. Product-moment correlations computed between 72 undergraduate nursing students' scores on these measures indicated that the two death anxiety scales were significantly correlated. Moreover, the Templer Death Anxiety Scale was most highly correlated with those Collett-Lester subscales which purportedly measure fears of one's own death and dying ( rs = .61, .51). The Templer scale appears to be not only a measure of death anxiety in general but also one of fears concerning personal demise in particular. Significant correlations between scales support their concurrent validity.

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