Death distress constructs: A preliminary empirical examination of the Farsi form in nurses: A brief note

Dadfar, Mahboubeh; Lester, David

doi:10.1002/nop2.484

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“…The DDS also had adequate correlation with other employed study variables. This result is in accordance with the original study ( Dadfar & Lester, 2020 ). Previous studies showed that three dimensions of death distress had none/low to high correlation with each other and explained different proportion of variance in an outcome variable among samples with different cultural backgrounds (e.g.…”

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Positivity explains how COVID-19 perceived risk increases death distress and reduces happiness

Yıldırım

Güler

2021

Personality and Individual Differences

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The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has produced an unprecedented impact on all aspects of life, including mental outcomes like death distress. This study examined the mediating effect of positivity on the association between COVID-19 related perceived risk, death distress, and happiness. Participants were 3109 Turkish adults (Mean age = 38.64 ± 10.40) who completed online measures of perceived risk, positivity, death distress, and happiness during the pandemic. Results showed that perceived risk had a significant direct effect on positivity, death distress, and happiness. Positivity had a significant direct effect on death distress and happiness. Mediation analysis indicated that positivity mediated the effect of perceived risk on death distress and happiness. Results suggest that positivity is an important aspect of developing strength-based preventions and interventions aiming to reduce psychological distress and improve happiness.

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“…The DDS is a 9-item measure of death distress with three components: anxiety, depression, and obsessive thoughts ( Dadfar & Lester, 2020 ). Items are rated on a Likert-type scale from 1 (never) to 5 (always).…”

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Positivity explains how COVID-19 perceived risk increases death distress and reduces happiness

Yıldırım

Güler

2021

Personality and Individual Differences

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“…(p. 345) Farley (2004) "Death anxiety is a feeling of dread, apprehension or solicitude (anxiety) when one thinks of the process of dying, or ceasing to 'be'". Death anxiety is universal, present in all societies; however, the experience of death anxiety may vary depending on religiosity, gender, psychological state, and age (Chan and Yap 2009;Dadfar et al 2016;Dadfar and Lester 2020;Lehto and Stein 2009;Madnawat and Kachhawa 2007). As death anxiety is a common human experience, relieving death anxiety may play a vital role in improving quality of life (Zhang et al 2019).…”

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Death Anxiety, Religiosity and Culture: Implications for Therapeutic Process and Future Research

Pandya

Kathuria

2021

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Death anxiety is a common phenomenon that humans experience. It is multidimensional. There has been an upsurged interest around the discussion on death anxiety across the globe, however, much of the literature focuses on the concept of death anxiety, religiosity, and its role in mental health conditions. Further, studies on death anxiety are scattered and at times disconnected. It is important to review existing literature to get an overview of the current direction in research and understand its relevance to facilitate therapeutic processes. In this scoping review, literature was searched in databases such as PubMed, Scopus, and PsychINFO using key words such as “death anxiety”, “fear of death”, religion”, “culture”, and “psychopathology” combined with Boolean operators to narrow down the search results. The initial search yielded 614 records, of which 546 records were removed based on title review (363), abstract review (94), and full-text review (89). Finally, 68 articles were appraised, narratively synthesized, and thematically presented. Major themes revealed in the literature were theoretical frameworks of death anxiety, religiosity, universality, psychological effects of death anxiety, psychopathology, and religious coping strategies. There is a need to assess client’s death anxiety and address them using religious rituals and coping mechanisms.

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“…The Death Depression Scale (DDS). The DDS was constructed and validated by Templer et al (1990) Aghazadeh, Mohammadzadeh, & Rezaie, 2014;Dadfar & Lester, in press, 2016, 2020a, 2020bDadfar, Abdel-Khalek, Lester, & Atef Vahid, 2017;Dadfar, Lester, Asgharnejad Farid, Atef Vahid, & Birashk, 2014Mohammadzadeh, Rezaei, & Aghazadeh, 2016).…”

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“…Cronbach a coefficients ranged from 0.83-0.89 in three Arab Egyptian, Kuwaiti and Lebanonese samples (Abdel-Khalek, 2002a), indicating good internal consistency. Good psychometric properties have also been reported for the Farsi version of the DDS with Iranian samples (seeAghazadeh, Mohammadzadeh, & Rezaie, 2014; Dadfar & Lester, in press, 2016, 2020a, 2020bDadfar, Abdel-Khalek, Lester, & Atef Vahid, 2017;Dadfar, Lester, Asgharnejad Farid, Atef Vahid, & Birashk, 2014Mohammadzadeh, Rezaei, & Aghazadeh, 2016).…”

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Death depression in Egyptian clinical and non‐clinical groups

2020

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Aim The main aims of this study were to explore the differences between seven Egyptian clinical and non‐clinical samples in death depression, as well as to estimate gender‐related differences. Design A cross‐sectional study. Methods The Death Depression Scale (DDS) was administered to seven groups ( N = 765) of Egyptian normal (non‐clinical) patients, anxiety outpatients, schizophrenic inpatients (men and women) and addicts (men only) in individual sessions. Results Anxiety outpatients of both sexes obtained significantly and greatly higher death depression scores than did the other five groups, whereas the male schizophrenics, the male addicts, and the male and female non‐clinical groups had the lowest death depression scores. Female schizophrenics obtained a significantly higher death depression scores than did male schizophrenics, addicts and non‐clinical participants. Female anxiety outpatients and schizophrenics had higher death depression mean scores than did their male counterparts. Discussion The present finding is consistent, in general, with previous studies on death anxiety and death obsession. What applied to death anxiety was consistent also with death depression and death obsession. That is, the death distress concept.

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Death distress constructs: A preliminary empirical examination of the Farsi form in nurses: A brief note

Abstract: There is a negative attitude towards issues related to death and dying in nurses working in hospitals of Iran (e.g. Arab, Seyed Bagheri,

Cited by 11 publications

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Positivity explains how COVID-19 perceived risk increases death distress and reduces happiness

Positivity explains how COVID-19 perceived risk increases death distress and reduces happiness

Death Anxiety, Religiosity and Culture: Implications for Therapeutic Process and Future Research

Death depression in Egyptian clinical and non‐clinical groups

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