Anniversary Reaction”
Important Events and Timing of Death in a Group of Roman Catholic Priests
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13630500 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lee Walker (Director of Research, Mennonite College of Nursing, Bloomington, Illinois), Lee K Walker (Illinois State University, corresponding author), Lawrence D Walker (Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois) |
| Year | 1990 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 69-74 |
| Publication date | 1990-08-01 |
| 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 | 10.2190/3pp4-xvvd-7dle-86a6 |
| OpenAlex | W2036586307 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 15 |
The death dates of a sample of 1038 Roman Catholic priests from three dioceses were compared with dates of ceremonial (Christmas and Easter) and personal (birthday and day of ordination) anniversaries to test for relationships that might support either a social integration model (postulating a dip before and a rise after in number of deaths around special holidays or anniversaries) or the more psychological opponent-process model, which anticipates a rise and fall of deaths around special dates linked to the affective significance such events carry for the individual. The data were analyzed using chi-square tests for association. There were no meaningful patterns of death around any anniversary. These results suggest either that there is no association between time of death and important anniversaries, or that the important event may be so unique to each individual that it is not amenable to group analysis
Association (psychology · Event (particle physics · Genealogy · Ordination · Psychotherapist · Sociology · Statistics · Test (biology · Cultural Differences and Values · Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion · Demography · History · Mathematics · Psychology · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology · Social Psychology
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The Hollow Holiday
Birth Dates and Death Dates
Variations in Death Rates in the Proximity of Christmas
On the Relationship between Significant Yearly Events and Time of Death
A Time to Die
Control over Death
A Re-Examination of Phillips' Death-Dip Hypothesis
A Dip in Deaths Before Ceremonial Occasions
The Elementary Forms of Religious Life
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,09 |
| Citation span | 2004 - 2004 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |