Contributions of Health and Demographic Status to Death Anxiety and Attitudes toward Voluntary Passive Euthanasia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13628422 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gerald M Devins (McGill University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1981 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 293-302 |
| Publication date | 1981-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0030-2228 • E-ISSN: 1541-3764 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2190/8jhc-3lvd-0r96-q23a |
| OpenAlex | W1981030561 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 15 |
Two experimenter-interviewers and 211 volunteer interviewees participated. Two multivariate data “packages”–obtained via standardized individual interviews–were examined: 1. Templer Death Anxiety Scale (DAS) total scores and attitudes toward voluntary passive euthanasia; 2. five DAS-derived principal components previously identified as independent sources of death anxiety. A significant sex-difference (females showing greater death anxiety than males) was consistent with previous research. Consistent with Kubler-Ross' earlier speculation, both greater death acceptance and anxiety were observed among rural as compared to urban-dwelling participants. Responses by a life-threatened geriatric subsample ( n = 60) revealed significant differences in death fears related to type of medical disorder. This was consistent with an idiographic “orientations toward death” theoretical perspective. The previously reported finding of no difference in the death fears of heart and cancer patients was replicated although its generalization to other life-threatened patient groups was contraindicated
Anxiety · Death anxiety · Fear of death · Psychiatry · Sociology · Clinical Psychology · Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion · Demography · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health · Medicine · Optimism, Hope, and Well-being · Psychology · Gerontology
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Death Attitudes, Gender and Death Experience
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Assessing Right to Die Attitudes
Euthanasia
Cancer Does Not Phase Us
Psychological Perspectives on Death
The Need for a New Medical Model
Death Anxiety Scale Means, Standard Deviations, and Embedding
The Determination of Death
Dying Vs. Well-Being
The Construction and Validation of a Death Anxiety Scale
Sex differences in eavesdropping on nonverbal cues
Experimental and correlational studies of the fear of death
Concerning least squares analysis of experimental data
Death by Decision
| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,19 |
| Citation span | 1990 - 2012 (23) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |