Death Anxiety Among University Students in Northern Ireland and Canada

Lonetto, Richard; Gw, Mercer; Fleming, Stephen J.; Bunting, Brendan; Clare, Michael

doi:10.1080/00223980.1980.12062951

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“…Because of its grounding in negative emotionality, imagery such as corpse viewing can heighten death anxiety (Lonetto, 1982;Lonetto, Mercer, Fleming, Bunting, & Clare , 1980;McDonald & Hilgendorf, 1986).…”

Section: Attributes Of Death Anxietymentioning

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Death Anxiety: An Analysis of an Evolving Concept

Lehto¹,

Stein²

2009

Res Theory Nurs Pract

224

143

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This article identifies defining attributes, antecedents, and consequences of the concept of death anxiety using Rodgers (2000) evolutionary method of concept analysis. The literature on death anxiety was systematically reviewed for the years 1980-2007. Articles were summarized and coded. Inductive data analyses resulted in defining attributes (emotion, cognitive, experiential, developmental, sociocultural shaping, and source of motivation), antecedents (stressful environments and the experience of unpredictable circumstances, diagnosis of a life-threatening illness or the experience of a life-threatening event, and experiences with death and dying), and consequences (adaptive and maladaptive presentations). Results are important because little systematic inquiry of death anxiety exists in nursing literature.

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Section: Attributes Of Death Anxietymentioning

confidence: 99%

Death Anxiety: An Analysis of an Evolving Concept

Lehto¹,

Stein²

2009

Res Theory Nurs Pract

224

143

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“…Research in death anxiety reveals that women express more fear of personal death than men (Lonetto, Mercer, Fleming, Bunting, & Clare, 1980;Neimeyer, Bagley, & Moore, 1986). Some researchers conclude that women have a tendency to report death anxiety more readily than men, which could skew whether they truly have more death anxiety, or are just more willing to report it (Dattel & Neimeyer, 1990).…”

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The impact of a palliative care educational component on attitudes toward care of the dying in undergraduate nursing students

Mallory

2003

Journal of Professional Nursing

189

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Nurse educators have identified that historically nurses have not been prepared to care for dying patients. Research also has identified that nursing students have anxieties about death, dying, and caring for dying patients. Several factors have been identified as affecting nurses' and nursing students' attitudes toward care of the dying. Factors addressed in this research were current and previous death education. This research incorporated experiential learning using a model of death education and transformative learning theory. The educational experiences were geared to help students understand the skills needed to care competently and compassionately for the dying. The use of the End of Life Nursing Education Consortium (ELNEC) education package along with experiences at the hospice, the funeral home, the anatomy laboratory, and role play helped facilitate transformative learning in the nursing students. The study examined the effects of an educational experience to determine if a one-time educational experience provides sufficient, lasting effects in a 6-week format. Results of this study indicate that education can have a positive effect on nursing students' attitudes toward care of the dying. Nursing students in the intervention group had a significant positive increase in their attitudes toward care of the dying after the intervention. The attitude change increased slightly after a 4-week period.

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“…Research has shown that death anxiety has been found to be associated with exposure to traumatic or life-threatening events, such as the civil disturbance in Northern Ireland. People were found to be characterized by their concern about shortness of life, the viewing of a corpse, and contracting cancer ( Lonetto, Fleming, & Mercer, 1979;Lonetto, Mercer, Fleming, Bunting, & Clare, 1980) . Victims of the Buå alo Creek ood disaster were found to manifest death anxiety related to memories and images of the disaster.…”

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Traumatic Stress and Death Anxiety Among Community Residents Exposed to an Aircraft Crash

Chung

Chung²,

Easthope³

2000

Death Studies

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This article examined the relationship between traumatic stress and death anxiety among community residents who lived near woodlands in which an aircraft had crashed in Coventry, England. The hypothesis was that there would be a high level of impact of the crash experienced by residents and that the residents would experience psychological distress. It was also hypothesized that the impact of the crash and distress were associated with death anxiety. Eighty-two residents were interviewed for the study. They were asked to complete the Impact of Event Scale, the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ), and the Death Anxiety Scale. The results showed that Coventry residents were found to experience intrusive thoughts and display avoidance behavior. The residents' intrusive thoughts and avoidance behavior were significantly more severe than one group of Horowitz's standardized samples (i.e., the medical students), but not significantly different from another group (i.e., the stress clinic samples). Fifty-seven percent scored at or above the GHQ cutoff point, which meant that they were considered to be psychiatric cases. Community residents scored significantly lower in death anxiety than the standardized high-death anxiety patients but no differently from the standardized control patients. Correlations were found between the impact of the event, psychological distress, and death anxiety.

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Death Anxiety Among University Students in Northern Ireland and Canada

Cited by 23 publications

References 16 publications

Death Anxiety: An Analysis of an Evolving Concept

Death Anxiety: An Analysis of an Evolving Concept

The impact of a palliative care educational component on attitudes toward care of the dying in undergraduate nursing students

Traumatic Stress and Death Anxiety Among Community Residents Exposed to an Aircraft Crash

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