Death Anxiety Handbook: Research, Instrumentation, And ApplicationRobert A. Neimeyer Taylor & Francis, 2015 M12 22 - 312 pages Presenting a broad coverage of this major area of studies on death and dying, this book provides a systematic presentation of the six most widely used and best validated measures of death anxiety, threat and fear. These chapters consider the available data on the psychometric properties of each instrument and summarize research using them, and also supply a copy of the instrument with scoring keys - to facilitate their use. In addition, other chapters make use of the instrumentation by pursuing questions of applied significance in various health care settings nursing homes, psychotherapy, death education, near death experiences, persons with AIDS, experiences of bereaved young adults.; An introductory chapter introduces the major philosophical and psychological theories of the causes and consequences of death anxiety in adult life, and a closing chapter gives an overview of death education and how this affects attitudes towards death and dying. |
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Death Anxiety Handbook: Research, Instrumentation, and Application Robert A. Neimeyer Limited preview - 1994 |
Death Anxiety Handbook: Research, Instrumentation, And Application Robert A. Neimeyer Limited preview - 2015 |
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adults afterlife ANCOVA Approach Acceptance assess attitudes toward death behavior belief Clinical Psychology cognitive College students Collett-Lester scores concept construct validity control group Coping with Death correlations DAP–R death acceptance death and dying Death Anxiety Scale death attitudes Death Avoidance death competency death concern death education programs death fear Death Scale Death Studies death threat death-related defenses dimensions Durlak elderly Epting Escape Acceptance existential experience factor analysis fear of death Fear of Dying feelings Gerontology Hoelter hospice hypothesized individuals interpersonal Journal Krieger Leitner Lester measures of death MFODS multidimensional NDErs negative Neutral Acceptance Omega one’s organ donation patients personal construct personal construct psychology personal construct theory personal death Personal meanings positive Psychological Reports psychometric reliability religiosity religious repertory grid response Rigdon sample self-actualization self-efficacy significant social splits subjects subscales Templer terror management theory thanatology theory Thorson Threat Index validity variables