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Pashak, Travis J.; Oswald, Samuel R.; Justice, Michelle D.; Seely, Laura T.; Burns, Brittany R.; Shepherd, Sarah J. – College Student Journal, 2017
Terror management theory (TMT) places death anxiety in an explanatory role in cognition, affect, and behavior, spanning mental health to cultural trends. We aimed to connect TMT to trait death anxiety, and propose an additional component: "life acknowledgement" (life awareness, lived experience connection, liveliness engagement) which…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Attitudes, Death, Anxiety
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Koca-Atabey, Mujde; Oner-Ozkan, Bengi – Death Studies, 2011
The study examined the relationship between the defensive versus existential religious orientation and mortality salience hypothesis in a country where the predominant type of religion is Islam. It was predicted that the mortality reactions of participants would not differ in accordance with their religious orientations within a Muslim sample. The…
Descriptors: Muslims, Political Attitudes, Religious Factors, Death
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Barr, Peter; Cacciatore, Joanne – Death Studies, 2008
The study explored the relation of fear of death (Multidimensional Fear of Death Scale) to maternal grief (Perinatal Grief Scale-33) following miscarriage, stillbirth, neonatal death, or infant/child death. The 400 women participants were recruited from the website, e-mail lists, and parent groups of an organization that supports bereaved parents.…
Descriptors: Grief, Measures (Individuals), Fear, Death