Let’s Start With the End
Bibliodrama in an Italian Death Education Course on Managing Fear of Death, Fantasy-Proneness, and Alexithymia With a Mixed-Method Analysis
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13628498 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ines Testoni (0000-0002-2325-6450, University of Padua, corresponding author), Gianmarco Biancalani (0000-0002-5745-2118, University of Padua), Lucia Ronconi (0000-0002-2360-9965, University of Padua), Silvia Varani (0000-0003-2165-230X, Fondazione ANT Italia Onlus, Bologna, Italy) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 83 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 729-759 |
| Publication date | 2019-07-31 |
| 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 | 10.1177/0030222819863613 |
| PMID | 31366309 |
| OpenAlex | W2964523016 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 15 |
| References cited | 78 |
This article presents the results of an experience of death education (DE) course with bibliodrama in Italian high schools, which focused on emotions and existential themes. The research analyzed the inability to recognize or describe one's own emotions (alexithymia), fantasy-proneness, and attitudes toward death in two different groups of students: one who took a course on DE (with 113 students) and another who did not participate in it (with 114 students). The use of a mixed method allowed this study to explore the quantitative results that the students indicated in the questionnaire and the qualitative open answers to the final question about how they had profited from this DE course. The results showed that the course had a positive effect, as the DE group significantly decreased alexithymia and negative attitudes toward death, particularly in fear and avoidance of death, making their representation of death less traumatic
Alexithymia · Death education · Developmental psychology · Existentialism · Fantasy · Fear of death · Literature · Psychotherapist · Clinical Psychology · Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health · Medicine · Nursing · Psychology · Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
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| Unique citing works | 15 |
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| Citations per year | 2,5 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 15 |