Adolescent Attitudes toward Death

Maurer, Adah

doi:10.1080/00221325.1964.10533647

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“…Christ (1961) and Rhudick and Dibner (1961) found no effect of the amount of schooling. Maurer (1964) analyzed the content of essays on death by 172 adolescents. She judged the degree of maturity in dealing with death to be related to academic achievement.…”

Section: Demographic Variablesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Experimental and correlational studies of the fear of death.

Lester

1967

Psychological Bulletin

160

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The techniques used to measure the fear of death are reviewed. The effects of demographic variables and personal characteristics are discussed, and the lack of consistency in the different studies is attributed to lack of attention to the consistency and the validity of the measuring instruments and a failure to determine whether the different techniques are assessing the same dimension. The choice of variables is criticized for a lack of relevance to the genesis of the fear of death.

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Section: Demographic Variablesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Experimental and correlational studies of the fear of death.

Lester

1967

Psychological Bulletin

160

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“…The "chicken game" some youths play with cars or motorcycles can be interpreted as the adolescent's extreme effort to cope with the anxiety surrounding death. Maurer (1964) found a correlation between the adolescent's academic success and the maturity of attitudes toward death. She has outlined (Maurer, 1966) several maturational steps: awareness, denial, projection, curiosity, personification (which was most characteristic of the low academic group), propitiation, dare-devilry, substitution, contempt with laughter, acceptance of inevitability, despair, and transmutation into idealism (which was most characteristic of successful students).…”

Section: By Rosa a Hagin And Carol G Corwinmentioning

confidence: 89%

Bereaved children

Hagin

Corwin

1974

Journal of Clinical Child Psychology

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“…We should ask instead: 'How can his fears be relieved, his sense of important aliveness be increased, his curiosity about life and death satisfied and redirected into more constructive channels? ' Curiosity as a defence is often labelled ' silliness' (Maurer, 1964 a). Parents who indulge the child in his wanton killing dramas, seldom report the foolish questions that shatter the delusion of innocence.…”

Section: Maturation Of Concepts Of Deathmentioning

confidence: 99%