Gender Differences in Attitudes Toward Death Among Chinese College Students and the Implications for Death Education Courses
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13629446 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Yuwei Wang (0009-0000-6869-7105, Xiangya Nursing School, Central South University, Changsha, China), Siyuan Tang (0000-0001-9940-5072, Xiangya Nursing School, Central South University, Changsha, China), Xin Hu (0000-0001-8113-8631, Xiangya Nursing School, Central South University, Changsha, China), Chunxiang Qin (0000-0001-7780-7249, Xiangya Nursing School, Central South University, Changsha, China), Kaveh Khoshnood (0000-0003-2795-0447, Yale University), Mei Sun (0000-0003-0276-0612, Xiangya Nursing School, Central South University, Changsha, China, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 85 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 59-74 |
| Publication date | 2020-06-24 |
| 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 | 10.1177/0030222820934944 |
| PMID | 32580650 |
| OpenAlex | W3037121443 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 12 |
| References cited | 25 |
This study aims to explore the attitudes of college-age students to determine how they approach the idea of death by using a questionnaire that explores five separate dimensions of attitudes and beliefs. We received 1,206 completed surveys and found evidence of a substantial gender difference in attitudes toward death. These differences remain after adjustment for differences between males and females in other correlates of death attitudes and are not a function of gender differences in the dimensionality of the five scales used to characterize attitudes. We speculate that these differences originate in culturally defined expectations that are gender-related, as well as in substantial differences in individual family experiences of death. These speculations can take the form of testable hypotheses that should explain differences within genders as well as between genders. We believe that better education about death for college students can shape a healthier mental state among them
Death education · Developmental psychology · Clinical Psychology · Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health · Medicine · Psychology · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology · Social Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 12 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,4 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 12 |