Fear of Death in the Mentally Ill

Datos Bibliográficos

ID13664677
AutoresHerman Feifel (Veterans Administration Outpatient Clinic, Los Angeles, autor de correspondencia), Lawrence J Hermann (Veterans Administration Outpatient Clinic, Los Angeles)
Año1973
Volumen33
Número3
Páginas931-938
Fecha de publicación1973-12-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaPsychological Reports (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0033-2941 • E-ISSN: 1558-691X
EditorialSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2466/pr0.1973.33.3.931
PMID4767849
OpenAlexW1986795997
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas14
Referencias citadas11

Fear of death is considered a major source of apprehension for many emotionally disturbed individuals. Hypotheses that mentally ill persons would evidence greater fear of death than a control group of normal Ss, and the more intense the degree of emotional disturbance the greater would be the presence of fear of death, were investigated. Fear of death was assessed by means of a multilevel criterion. Results indicated that mentally ill patients did not have any significantly greater fear of death than emotionally healthy Ss. Neither did degree of emotional illness appear to be related significantly to apprehension concerning death. Both groups, however, manifested an over-all similarity in perception of death, i.e., repudiation of fear of death at a conscious level, linked to ambivalence at an imagery level, and to dread at below-the-level-of-awareness

Ambivalence · Apprehension · Developmental psychology · Fear of death · Mental health · Mental illness · Mentally ill · Perception · Psychiatry · Clinical Psychology · Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion · Psychology · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment · Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments · Social Psychology