A Psychomanteum Process involving mirror-gazing was conducted in a research setting to explore apparent facilitated contact with deceased friends and relatives, and to collect data on the phenomena, experiences, and effects on bereavement. A pilot study with five participants resulted in strong experiences and four apparent contacts. The main study took 27 participants through a three-stage process: remembering a deceased friend or relative, sitting in a darkened room gazing into a mirror while thinking of the person, and finally discussing and reflecting on the experience. Data were collected with pre- and post-questionnaires, a follow-up questionnaire at least four weeks after the session, interviews by the facilitators, and two personality measures, the Tellegen Absorption Scale and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. Contacts with the sought person were reported by 13 participants. Participants reported that a variety of imagery appeared in the mirror, as well as experiences of dialogue, sounds, light, body sensations, and smell. Several specific messages were reported by participants who believed that they were from the sought persons. Twenty-one self-report items relating to bereavement were analyzed for changes between pre- and follow-up questionnaires. Using a Wilcoxon signed ranks analysis, statistically significant reductions in bereavement responses were found over the entire group ( p=.05 to .0008). These included unresolved feelings, loss, grief, guilt, sadness, and need to communicate. Participants also reported significant impact on their lives following the session.
Bu çalışmanın amacı, Aralık 2019'dan beri tüm dünyayı etkisi altına alan koronavirüs salgını süresince Türk halkının sergilediği tutumu (bilişsel, duyuşsal ve davranışsal boyutlarda) ve bu tutum üzerinde etkili olan etmenleri belirlemektir. Gereç ve Yöntem:Bir ölçek aracılığı ile derlenen veriler açıklayıcı faktör analizi (AFA), doğrulayıcı faktör analizi (DFA), yapısal eşitlik modellemesi (YEM) ile modellenerek, boyutlar arası ilişkiler ile her bir boyutta etkili olan maddelerin önemleri belirlenmiştir. Bulgular: Katılımcıların %61,4'ü erkek ve %65,4'ü 40 yaş altıdır. Bireylerin tutumlarını açıklayan alt boyutlardan davranışsal boyut üzerinde bireylerin ekonomik tedbirlere vereceği önemin en etkili değişken olduğu, bilişsel ve duyuşsal boyutlarda ise sırası ile bireylerin hayata geliş amaçlarını tekrar ABSTRACT Aim: The aim of study is to determine the attitude of the Turkish people (in cognitive, affective and behavioral dimensions) and the factors affecting this attitude during the coronavirus epidemic that has affected the whole world since December 2019. Materials and Methods:The data collected by a scale were modeled with explanatory factor analysis (EFA), confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) and structural equation modeling (SEM), and the effects of the dimensions and the importance of the effective items in each dimension were determined.Results: 61.4% of the participants were male and 65.4% were under the age of 40 years. Individuals' "questioning their purpose of coming to life again" and "desire of being more sensitive to the events around them than in the past" were found to be significant, respectively. Other results obtained from the study are given in the relevant tables and figures. Conclusion:It was determined that the affective dimension had the highest effect on the results of EFA, CFA and SEM analyses, which were effective in examining the attitudes of individuals towards an event with these sub-dimensions.
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