Personal Constructs, Threat and Attitudes toward Death
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13629516 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Seth R Krieger (University of Florida, corresponding author), Franz R Epting (University of Florida), Larry M Leitner (University of Nebraska) |
| Year | 1975 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 299-310 |
| Publication date | 1975-01-01 |
| 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/wcdw-pnpq-0erv-rnm7 |
| OpenAlex | W2120136966 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 68 |
| References cited | 14 |
The present study introduced a personal construct approach to the assessment of threat of death. Two experiments were reported in which the relationship of this measure, referred to as the Threat Index, to a number of self-report variables, the Lester Fear of Death Scale, and the Templer Death Anxiety Scale was investigated. A total of 112 college students participated in the experiments which demonstrated a significant relationship between the Threat Index, self-reported fear of death, conceivability of personal mortality, and the Lester Scale. No significant relationship was found between the Threat Index and belief in afterlife, frequency of thoughts about death or suicide, or the Templer Scale. The possible advantages of the Threat Index procedure were discussed in terms of its relationship with the other measures of death concern, the various self-report variables, and previous criticisms of death concern assessment techniques
Afterlife · Anxiety · Construct (python library · Death anxiety · Fear of death · Index (typography · Psychiatry · Scale (ratio · Terror management theory · Clinical Psychology · Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health · Paranormal Experiences and Beliefs · Psychology · Social Psychology
Psychological Perspectives on Death
Measurement invariance and country difference in death anxiety
Death anxiety in adult life—theoretical perspectives
Construct similarity, self-meaningfulness, and presidential preference
Humanistic psychology and personal construct theory
Gender differences in death anxiety and religious orientation among US high school and college students
Peeking Behind the Curtains
Self-control and the fear of death among adolescents in Hong Kong
The threat hypothesis
Death anxiety and comfort in teaching about death among preschool teachers
Assessing personal meanings of death
Deathbed Scene Narratives
Inconsistencies in death threat theory still stand
Beginning Counselors' Death Concerns and Empathic Responses to Client Situations Involving Death and Grief
Psychological Research on Death Attitudes
Factor Structure of the Multidimensional Orientation Toward Dying and Death Inventory Among Hong Kong College Students
Reduced death threat in near-death experiencers
Death threat with young adults who have lost a parent to death
Signing an organ donor card
Correlates of Death Anxiety in Pakistan
Death threat, parental loss, and interpersonal style
The Study of Personal Constructs of Death and Fear of Death Among Taiwanese Adolescents
Death across the lifespan
A comparison of hospice patients with other recovering and ill patients
Toward a comprehensive model of death anxiety
Reduction in death threat as a basis for optimal functioning
Cognitive structure and death anxiety
Disarming the Threat to Feminist Identification
The Reliability and Validity of Revised Collett—Lester Fear of Death Scale (Version 3) in a Nigerian Population
Some Reliability and Validity Considerations on Australian Data from the Death Anxiety Scale
A Sociocultural Analysis of Death Anxiety among Older Japanese Urbanites in a Citizens' Movement
Dialogue with Donald Templer
The Ontological Representation of Death
A Personal Construct Approach to the Conjugally Bereaved Woman
Construction of a Death Anxiety Scale–Extended
Identity and Death
Clarifying the Measurement of Death Attitudes
Death Orientation in the Suicide Intervention Worker
Death Threat, Concern, Anxiety, Fear and Acceptance in Death-Involved and ‘At-Risk’ Groups
Death Threat Constructions in the Student and the Prudent
Comparison between Experiential and Didactic Methods of Death Education
The Impact of Death-Related Fears on Attitudes of Nurses in a Hospital Work Setting
The Threat Index
Death Threat and Death Concerns in the College Student
Factor Structure, Reliability, and Validity of the Death Attitude Profile-Revised
Re-Clarifying the Measurement of Death Attitudes
I’m not afraid to die”
Which near-death experience features are associated with reduced fear of death
A systematic review of the psychometric properties of death anxiety self-report measures
Existential Perspectives on Death Anxiety
Existential Perspectives on Death Anxiety
Assessing Individual Differences in Death Threat
Assessing Attitudes Toward Dying and Death
The Lester Attitude toward Death Scale
Death Anxiety in a National Sample of United States Funeral Directors and its Relationship with Death Exposure, Age, and Sex
Convergent Validity, Situational Stability and Meaningfulness of the Threat Index
Death Orientation and Communication with the Terminally Ill
Varieties of Transcending Experience at Death
A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Death Anxiety
Special Article
Validity and Reliability of Provided Constructs in Assessing Death Threat
Coping and Attitudes Toward Dying and Death in German Adults
The Psychological Correlates of Decreased Death Anxiety After a Near-Death Experience
A preliminary examination of the associations between belief in God and in afterlife, death anxiety, and Covid-19 protective behaviours within a non-representative Polish community sample
Past, Present, and Future of Dying
Coping with Death
Assessing Homosexual Stress
Paranormal Beliefs and their Implications in University Students from Finland and the United States
Who's afraid of death?
Attitudes toward Death and Suicide in a Non-Disturbed Population
Attitudes toward Attitudes toward Death
Anxiety and Two Cognitive Forms of Resistance to the Idea of Death
Affective response to psychoanalytic death symbols
The Construction and Validation of a Death Anxiety Scale
Experimental and correlational studies of the fear of death
Reactions to Death Stimuli among Theology Students
| Unique citing works | 68 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,39 |
| Citation span | 1977 - 2025 (49) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 68 |