Meanings” toward Death
A TST Strategy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13629532 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robert Bakshis (Illinois State University, corresponding author), Michael Correll (0000-0001-7902-3907, Illinois State University), Myra Duffy (Illinois State University), Stanley E Grupp (Illinois State University), James K Hilliker (Illinois State University), James Hilliker (Illinois State University), Thomas Howe (Illinois State University), Thomas S Howe (Illinois State University), Gail Kawales (Illinois State University), Raymond L Schmitt (Illinois State University) |
| Year | 1974 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 161-179 |
| Publication date | 1974-07-01 |
| 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 | 10.2190/7r5e-f1tk-ncyr-g00c |
| OpenAlex | W2124360130 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 25 |
This paper describes a new method for operationalizing attitudes toward death utilizing the Twenty Statements Test format and emphasizes the social and symbolic nature of these attitudes. A theoretical rationale and empirical data are presented. Responses to the “What is Death?” question were obtained from seventy-nine nurses. Seventeen categories were generated from a content analysis of these responses. Coding reliability checks produced substantial agreement. Subjects expressed varied and contradictory meanings toward death which included religious, nonreligious as well as favorable and unfavorable attitudes. The TST strategy is uniquely appropriate for tapping the social, symbolic, and contradictory meanings that are often held of death
Coding (social sciences · Content analysis · Epistemology · Operationalization · Psychoanalysis · Reliability (semiconductor · Social science · Sociology · Test (biology · The Symbolic · Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health · Philosophy · Psychology · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology · Social Psychology
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The Assessment of the Self
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A Descriptive Study of Internalized Audiences
Policy Implications of an Experimental Study in the Home Care of Schizophrenics
Individuals, Groups and Economic Behavior
Observations on the Role-Specific and Orientational Other
The Reference Other Orientation
An Empirical Investigation of Self-Attitudes
Death Education
Respondents' Judgments of Self Statements
Some Methodological Problems of Kuhn's Self Theory
The Consensual Definition of Social Objects
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,09 |
| Citation span | 1980 - 2023 (44) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |