Special Article
Death Anxiety Research: The State of the Art
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13629928 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robert A Neimeyer (0000-0002-6918-3445, University of Memphis, Tennessee, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1998 |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 97-120 |
| Publication date | 1998-03-01 |
| 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/ty32-ee9j-yvq8-rp31 |
| OpenAlex | W2083101827 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 43 |
| References cited | 59 |
Despite forty years of research in death attitudes, our understanding of the causes, correlates, and consequences of death related anxieties and fears remains less than comprehensive. However, clear gains have been made in the measurement of death concerns and competencies, leading to the development and validation of a handful of scales whose more extensive use could improve the conceptual yield of research in this area. In this article, I review these promising approaches to the assessment of death attitudes, as well as a number of theoretical, methodological, and practical issues surrounding their use. If investigators devote equal attention to the quality and quantity of future research, there is reason to hope that psychology could make a more profound and systematic contribution to our understanding of the human encounter with death
Anxiety · Death anxiety · Engineering ethics · Epistemology · Psychiatry · Quality (philosophy · Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion · Engineering · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health · Philosophy · Psychology · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology
The Cambridge Handbook of Age and Ageing
Quantitative or qualitative? Measurement issues in the study of grief.
Dynamic of Death Anxiety in People with Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease
Religiosity, the need for structure, death attitudes, and funeral preferences
Reflecting on cultural meanings of spirituality/wairuatanga in post-traumatic growth using the Māori wellbeing model of Te Whare Tapa Whā
Evaluating explicit and implicit death attitudes in funeral and university students
The Construction of the Multidimensional Orientation Toward Dying and Death Inventory (Moddi-F)
Death Obsession in Egyptian Samples
A Perspective on the Current State of Death Education
The Arabic Scale of Death Anxiety (Asda)
Death Anxiety in Clinical and Non-Clinical Groups
Beginning Counselors' Death Concerns and Empathic Responses to Client Situations Involving Death and Grief
Association of sense of coherence and supernatural beliefs with death anxiety and death depression among Romanian cancer patients
Death anxiety among older adults
Death Anxiety as a Predictor of Posttraumatic Stress Levels Among Individuals With Spinal Cord Injuries
Death anxiety in Lebanese college students in 1998 and 2015
Correlates of Death Anxiety in Pakistan
Death Anxiety and Education
Death and Dying Anxiety Among Bereaved and Nonbereaved Elderly Parents
Death and Dying Anxiety Among Elderly Arab Muslims in Israel
A Day of Judgment
Four Year Cross-Sectional Comparison of Death Distress among Nursing College Students
Thanatologists View Death
Constructing Symbolic Ancestry
Construction of a Death Anxiety Scale–Extended
Construct Validity of the Revised Collett-Lester Fear of Death and Dying Scale
Different Death Attitudes in Internalizing Symptom Context Among Norwegian and Turkish Women
The Grief Experiences of Certified Nursing Assistants
Death Obsession, Covid-19–Related Fear and Religiosity in People Living with Type 2 Diabetes
Development of a Scale to Measure Death Perspectives
Factors Related to Attitudes Toward Death among American and Chinese Older Adults
Does War affect Death Anxiety Level? Seven Readings of Measurements (1988–2002) before and after the Iraqi Invasion of Kuwait
Factor Structure, Reliability, and Validity of the Death Attitude Profile-Revised
Systematic Review of Existential Anxiety Instruments
Death Obsession in Arabic and Western Countries
Death Obsession in Arabic and Western Countries
Assessing Attitudes Toward Dying and Death
Death Anxiety and Threat Appeals
Death Anxiety
Death anxiety among older adults with chronic illnesses during Covid‐19
The Relationship Between Background Characteristics and Death Anxiety in Times of War
Elderly People's Death and Dying Anxiety
Selfless Time
Multidimensional treatment of fear of death.
Who's afraid of death?
Death concern and attitudes toward the elderly in nursing home personnel
Death competency
Concurrent Validity of Templer and Templer/Mc Mordie Death Anxiety Scales
Death Anxiety Scale Means and Standard Deviations for Ontario Undergraduates and Funeral Directors
Using the Templer Scale to Assess “Death Anxiety
Anxiety and Two Cognitive Forms of Resistance to the Idea of Death
Theory, Research, and Application
Fear of Personal Death and the Mmpi Profile of Middle-Age Men
Death Attitudes across the Life-Span
Death Concern and Religious Beliefs among Gays and Bisexuals of Variable Proximity to Aids
Personal Constructs, Threat and Attitudes toward Death
The Impact of Death-Risk Experiences and Religiosity on the Fear of Personal Death
Death Threat Constructions in the Student and the Prudent
Comfort and Empathy of Experienced Counselors in Client Situations Involving Death and Loss
The Fear of Death, the Fear of Dying, and Threshold Differences for Death Words and Neutral Words
Death Anxiety and Social Desirability among Nurses
Some Reliability and Validity Considerations on Australian Data from the Death Anxiety Scale
Aspects of Fear of Personal Death, Levels of Awareness, and Professional Affiliation among Dialysis Unit Staff Members
A Self-Administering Assessment of Personal Meanings of Death
Relationship of Death Anxiety Scale Factors to Subjective States
Bugen's Coping with Death Scale
Fear of Personal Death in Adulthood
A comparison of hospice patients with other recovering and ill patients
Personification of life and death among swedish health care professionals
A revised death anxiety scale
The meaning of death for children and adolescents
Personal meanings of death
Stress, coping, and fear of personal death
Cognitive structure and death anxiety
Ego integrity and fear of death
Sex differences in death anxiety
Death Personification in the Kevorkian Era
Testing alternative explanations for mortality salience effects
Attachment styles and fear of personal death
Evidence for terror management theory II
A confirmatory factor analysis of the Threat Index
Evidence for terror management theory
The Construction and Validation of a Death Anxiety Scale
Fear of personal death
Experimental and correlational studies of the fear of death
Paranormal Beliefs and their Implications in University Students from Finland and the United States
Fear of Personal Death and Positive Life Regard
| Unique citing works | 43 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,54 |
| Citation span | 1998 - 2026 (29) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 43 |