Hannelore Wass
Biographic Data
| ID | 6357375 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hannelore Wass |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hannelore |
| FAMILY NAME | Wass |
| SIGNATURE | WASS H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Florida |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 53 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
A Perspective on the Current State of Death Education
The author offers some views on the current state of death education with focus on the sparing attention given the death education of health professionals and of grief counselors. There is need for improved integration of the knowledge accumulated in the study of death, dying, and bereavement into the basic curricula of the parent disciplines and professional schools. Facilitation of personal engagement with the issue of mortality is an important…
Past, Present, and Future of Dying
Healthy Children and Fears about Death
Some explanations for the paucity of empirical studies of death fears in healthy, nonbereaved children are offered, and issues in studying this topic are discussed. Three major findings from the existing literature — occurrence, age/developmental differences, and gender differences in frequency, intensity, and quality — are presented, followed by a discussion of questions that remain largely unanswered and explanations that may need revision
Adolescents and Destructive Themes in Rock Music: A Follow-Up
We report findings of a follow-up on rock music preferences and of views of themes advocating homicide, suicide, and satanic practices (HSSR). A total of 120 adolescent offenders (ages 13–18 years), in two youth detention centers, were administered a questionnaire of Likert-type, categorical, and open-ended questions. Ninety-one students were fans of rock music. Of those, approximately 54 percent were HSSR fans. HSSR fans were more likely to be w…
Death studies: A retrospective view
Death education and grief/suicide intervention in the public schools
We surveyed a stratified random sample of 423 public schools, from prekindergarten through 12th grade, with respect to three death-related programs. Using categorical and open-ended questions, we asked the respondents about the structure and characteristics of the programs, types of curriculum materials, and training of personnel. The schools that responded were distributed similarly to the national population by region. The national estimate for…
Introduction to the guest editors
Introduction to the guest editors
Introduction to the guest editors
Adolescents' Interest in and Views of Destructive Themes in Rock Music
In a survey of rock music preferences and views on themes about homicide, satanism, and suicide (HSS), 694 middle and high school students were administered a questionnaire of structured and open-ended questions. Nine percent of the middle school students, 17 percent of the rural and 24 percent of the urban high school students were HSS rock fans. Three-fourths of these fans were males and nearly all were white. HSS fans more often claimed to kno…
Adolescents and death on television: A follow-up study
The television viewing habits and perceptions of television violence and death of 712 academically heterogeneous students, grades 6 through 12, from three urban and three rural schools in north Florida were surveyed using a TV questionnaire revised from a prior study. The survey indicated that adolescents enjoy watching violent TV programs but are ambivalent about allowing younger children to watch them, and that two fifths of the deaths occurrin…
Communicating with dying children and their siblings: A retrospective analysis
Recognition that children over age 4 with fatal illnesses generally anticipate their death has prompted more open communication between them and the adults caring for them. We investigated factors influencing the extent and success of such communication between parents, dying children, and their siblings, using data provided by 77 mothers who are members of the Compassionate Friends organization. We found that those mothers who talked more freely…
Introduction to the guest editor
Factors affecting Adolescents' behavior and attitudes toward destructive rock lyrics
In a study of rock music preferences, listening/watching behavior, and views on destructive rock lyrics, 894 adolescents in grades 9 through 12 in rural, urban, suburban public, and metropolitan parochial schools were administered a questionnaire. Demographic information on parents was also collected. It was found that 17.5% of the students were fans of rock music with lyrics that promote homicide, suicide, or satanic practices (HSSR). Loglinear …
Introduction to the special issue
Introduction to the special issue
Swedish and U.S. children's thinking about death: A qualitative study and cross-cultural comparison
The objective of this study was two-fold: (a) to investigate the qualitative differences in children's death-related thinking regardless of nationality, and (b) to discover what qualitative differences exist between Swedish and U.S. children in their concepts of death. Phase I of the study included a sample of 316 Swedish and U.S. children, ages 4–19, 53 percent of which were girls. Phase II consisted of a cross-cultural comparison of 124 Swedish…
Memorial
Department of law and ethics
With this issue we announce a change in the editorship of the Department of Law and Ethics. Because of the pressure of other professional responsibilities, Walter Probert and Ron Carson, under whose guidance this department was established, have asked to be relieved of this responsibility. We accept their request with regret, and acknowledge: with thanks the work that they have done. We are proud to present to the readers of Death Studies the new…
Department of law and ethics
With this issue we announce a change in the editorship of the Department of Law and Ethics. Because of the pressure of other professional responsibilities, Walter Probert and Ron Carson, under whose guidance this department was established, have asked to be relieved of this responsibility. We accept their request with regret, and acknowledge: with thanks the work that they have done. We are proud to present to the readers of Death Studies the new…
Use of Play for Assessing Children's Death Concepts: A Reexamination
O. Weininger reported large discrepancies between the proportions of young children's accurate concepts of death expressed in play and those expressed in interviews. He suggested that play is more effective than verbal expression for understanding young children's concepts of death and that verbally and play-expressed concepts are discrepant until ages 8 or 9. The present research was carried out to test Weininger's conclusions with a different a…
Similarities and Dissimilarities in Attitudes toward Death in a Population of Older Persons
The responses of one hundred and seventy-one elderly persons selected from three different types of residence communities to an abbreviated form of the Shneidman death questionnaire were analysed. In addition to some expected similarities, a number of significant differences were found. These differences appear to be related to educational level, type of residence community (rural, urban), and income level. Thus it was shown that certain life par…
Humanizing the education of teachers
In 1969 the University of Florida began operating an experimental program in teacher education side by side with its existing program. This experiment is unusual in two ways: 1. It is based upon perceptual-humanistic theory. The program grew out of a combination of basic research on the nature of the helping professions and modern contributions of perceptual-humanistic psychology. In this respect it presents an alternative model to the behavioral…
A Perspective on the Current State of Death Education
The author offers some views on the current state of death education with focus on the sparing attention given the death education of health professionals and of grief counselors. There is need for improved integration of the knowledge accumulated in the study of death, dying, and bereavement into the basic curricula of the parent disciplines and professional schools. Facilitation of personal engagement with the issue of mortality is an important…
Swedish and U.S. children's thinking about death: A qualitative study and cross-cultural comparison
The objective of this study was two-fold: (a) to investigate the qualitative differences in children's death-related thinking regardless of nationality, and (b) to discover what qualitative differences exist between Swedish and U.S. children in their concepts of death. Phase I of the study included a sample of 316 Swedish and U.S. children, ages 4–19, 53 percent of which were girls. Phase II consisted of a cross-cultural comparison of 124 Swedish…
Factors affecting Adolescents' behavior and attitudes toward destructive rock lyrics
In a study of rock music preferences, listening/watching behavior, and views on destructive rock lyrics, 894 adolescents in grades 9 through 12 in rural, urban, suburban public, and metropolitan parochial schools were administered a questionnaire. Demographic information on parents was also collected. It was found that 17.5% of the students were fans of rock music with lyrics that promote homicide, suicide, or satanic practices (HSSR). Loglinear …
Death education and grief/suicide intervention in the public schools
We surveyed a stratified random sample of 423 public schools, from prekindergarten through 12th grade, with respect to three death-related programs. Using categorical and open-ended questions, we asked the respondents about the structure and characteristics of the programs, types of curriculum materials, and training of personnel. The schools that responded were distributed similarly to the national population by region. The national estimate for…
Past, Present, and Future of Dying
Healthy Children and Fears about Death
Some explanations for the paucity of empirical studies of death fears in healthy, nonbereaved children are offered, and issues in studying this topic are discussed. Three major findings from the existing literature — occurrence, age/developmental differences, and gender differences in frequency, intensity, and quality — are presented, followed by a discussion of questions that remain largely unanswered and explanations that may need revision
Adolescents and death on television: A follow-up study
The television viewing habits and perceptions of television violence and death of 712 academically heterogeneous students, grades 6 through 12, from three urban and three rural schools in north Florida were surveyed using a TV questionnaire revised from a prior study. The survey indicated that adolescents enjoy watching violent TV programs but are ambivalent about allowing younger children to watch them, and that two fifths of the deaths occurrin…
Humanizing the education of teachers
In 1969 the University of Florida began operating an experimental program in teacher education side by side with its existing program. This experiment is unusual in two ways: 1. It is based upon perceptual-humanistic theory. The program grew out of a combination of basic research on the nature of the helping professions and modern contributions of perceptual-humanistic psychology. In this respect it presents an alternative model to the behavioral…
Humanizing the education of teachers
In 1969 the University of Florida began operating an experimental program in teacher education side by side with its existing program. This experiment is unusual in two ways: 1. It is based upon perceptual-humanistic theory. The program grew out of a combination of basic research on the nature of the helping professions and modern contributions of perceptual-humanistic psychology. In this respect it presents an alternative model to the behavioral…
Similarities and Dissimilarities in Attitudes toward Death in a Population of Older Persons
The responses of one hundred and seventy-one elderly persons selected from three different types of residence communities to an abbreviated form of the Shneidman death questionnaire were analysed. In addition to some expected similarities, a number of significant differences were found. These differences appear to be related to educational level, type of residence community (rural, urban), and income level. Thus it was shown that certain life par…
Use of Play for Assessing Children's Death Concepts: A Reexamination
O. Weininger reported large discrepancies between the proportions of young children's accurate concepts of death expressed in play and those expressed in interviews. He suggested that play is more effective than verbal expression for understanding young children's concepts of death and that verbally and play-expressed concepts are discrepant until ages 8 or 9. The present research was carried out to test Weininger's conclusions with a different a…
Department of law and ethics
With this issue we announce a change in the editorship of the Department of Law and Ethics. Because of the pressure of other professional responsibilities, Walter Probert and Ron Carson, under whose guidance this department was established, have asked to be relieved of this responsibility. We accept their request with regret, and acknowledge: with thanks the work that they have done. We are proud to present to the readers of Death Studies the new…
Memorial
Department of law and ethics
With this issue we announce a change in the editorship of the Department of Law and Ethics. Because of the pressure of other professional responsibilities, Walter Probert and Ron Carson, under whose guidance this department was established, have asked to be relieved of this responsibility. We accept their request with regret, and acknowledge: with thanks the work that they have done. We are proud to present to the readers of Death Studies the new…
Swedish and U.S. children's thinking about death: A qualitative study and cross-cultural comparison
The objective of this study was two-fold: (a) to investigate the qualitative differences in children's death-related thinking regardless of nationality, and (b) to discover what qualitative differences exist between Swedish and U.S. children in their concepts of death. Phase I of the study included a sample of 316 Swedish and U.S. children, ages 4–19, 53 percent of which were girls. Phase II consisted of a cross-cultural comparison of 124 Swedish…
Introduction to the special issue
Introduction to the special issue
Adolescents' Interest in and Views of Destructive Themes in Rock Music
In a survey of rock music preferences and views on themes about homicide, satanism, and suicide (HSS), 694 middle and high school students were administered a questionnaire of structured and open-ended questions. Nine percent of the middle school students, 17 percent of the rural and 24 percent of the urban high school students were HSS rock fans. Three-fourths of these fans were males and nearly all were white. HSS fans more often claimed to kno…
Adolescents and death on television: A follow-up study
The television viewing habits and perceptions of television violence and death of 712 academically heterogeneous students, grades 6 through 12, from three urban and three rural schools in north Florida were surveyed using a TV questionnaire revised from a prior study. The survey indicated that adolescents enjoy watching violent TV programs but are ambivalent about allowing younger children to watch them, and that two fifths of the deaths occurrin…
Communicating with dying children and their siblings: A retrospective analysis
Recognition that children over age 4 with fatal illnesses generally anticipate their death has prompted more open communication between them and the adults caring for them. We investigated factors influencing the extent and success of such communication between parents, dying children, and their siblings, using data provided by 77 mothers who are members of the Compassionate Friends organization. We found that those mothers who talked more freely…
Introduction to the guest editor
Factors affecting Adolescents' behavior and attitudes toward destructive rock lyrics
In a study of rock music preferences, listening/watching behavior, and views on destructive rock lyrics, 894 adolescents in grades 9 through 12 in rural, urban, suburban public, and metropolitan parochial schools were administered a questionnaire. Demographic information on parents was also collected. It was found that 17.5% of the students were fans of rock music with lyrics that promote homicide, suicide, or satanic practices (HSSR). Loglinear …
Death education and grief/suicide intervention in the public schools
We surveyed a stratified random sample of 423 public schools, from prekindergarten through 12th grade, with respect to three death-related programs. Using categorical and open-ended questions, we asked the respondents about the structure and characteristics of the programs, types of curriculum materials, and training of personnel. The schools that responded were distributed similarly to the national population by region. The national estimate for…
Introduction to the guest editors
Introduction to the guest editors
Introduction to the guest editors
Adolescents and Destructive Themes in Rock Music: A Follow-Up
We report findings of a follow-up on rock music preferences and of views of themes advocating homicide, suicide, and satanic practices (HSSR). A total of 120 adolescent offenders (ages 13–18 years), in two youth detention centers, were administered a questionnaire of Likert-type, categorical, and open-ended questions. Ninety-one students were fans of rock music. Of those, approximately 54 percent were HSSR fans. HSSR fans were more likely to be w…
Death studies: A retrospective view
Healthy Children and Fears about Death
Some explanations for the paucity of empirical studies of death fears in healthy, nonbereaved children are offered, and issues in studying this topic are discussed. Three major findings from the existing literature — occurrence, age/developmental differences, and gender differences in frequency, intensity, and quality — are presented, followed by a discussion of questions that remain largely unanswered and explanations that may need revision
Past, Present, and Future of Dying
A Perspective on the Current State of Death Education
The author offers some views on the current state of death education with focus on the sparing attention given the death education of health professionals and of grief counselors. There is need for improved integration of the knowledge accumulated in the study of death, dying, and bereavement into the basic curricula of the parent disciplines and professional schools. Facilitation of personal engagement with the issue of mortality is an important…
Psychology (21 works) · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health (10 works) · Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion (6 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Developmental psychology (5 works) · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works)