Who's afraid of death?

Feifel, Herman; Branscomb, Allan B.

doi:10.1037/h0034519

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“…The particular (MFODS) fears of death that were correlated with maternal grief were fear of the unknown, fear of premature death, and fear of conscious death. These findings echo those of Feifel and Branscomb (1973) who reported that consciously experienced fear of death was described in terms of fear of the unknown and fear of premature death. Similarly, Florian and Mikulincer (1997) showed that university students who had recently experienced a ''significant other'' bereavement compared with those not recently bereaved exhibited more fear related to the ''unknown nature of death'' and ''loss of self-fulfillment''.…”

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confidence: 88%

Personal Fear of Death and Grief in Bereaved Mothers

Barr

Cacciatore

2008

Death Studies

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Personal Fear of Death and Grief in Bereaved Mothers

Barr

Cacciatore

2008

Death Studies

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“…Gender, religious commitment, and age, for example, have often been examined in the context of death-related fear. Acknowledgement of concern about death is now widely recognized in the psychological literature, with fear of death being the central tenet (Cicirelli, 1999;Conte, Plutchik & Weiner, 1992;Feifel & Branscomb, 1973;Kastenbaum & Aisenberg, 1972;Kastenbaum & Costa, 1977;Feifel, 1969;Feifel & Hermann, 1973;Feifel & Nagy, 1981;Hinton, 1967;McCarthy, 1980;Stringfellow, 1963;Swenson, 1961;Templer, 1971). But what is it about death that makes people react with fear?…”

Section: Why Do We Fear Death?mentioning

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Predictors of Fear of Death and Self-Mortality: An Atlantic Canadian Perspective

Power

Smith

2008

Death Studies

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“…For instance, contrary to the earlier notion that religion helps individual to cope with death anxiety, Feifel's [39] research showed that religiosity was negatively correlated with death and anxiety towards death. In yet another study subsequently, Feifel et al [40] found a negative association between religiosity and death anxiety.…”

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Culture, Perception/Belief about Death and their Implication to the Awareness and Control of the Socio-Economic, Environmental and Health Factors Surrounding Lower Life Expectancy in Nigeria

Okechi¹

2017

Acta Psychopathol

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Death is not a new phenomenon in the history of humanity however, what matters is the perception about it among every population and their attitude towards the socio-economic, environmental and health factors surrounding it. The present paper focuses on examining the concept of death across generations and the religiously and culturally informed attitude and belief towards it; the implication of this to the knowledge about and control of the socio-economic, environmental and Health factors surrounding life expectancy in traditional African societies such as Nigeria. The paper with regard to physical explanations of the factors surrounding lower life expectancy among the traditional African people such as Nigerians bring to limelight the implication of superstitious belief about death to the awareness and control of the socio-economic, environmental and health factors surrounding lower life expectancy among the population.Keywords: Death; Culture; Belief; Attitude; Environment; Health; Religion Africa; Nigeria the face of death beyond the socio-economic and cultural factors which may affect one's conception about the phenomenon [2]. While religion, socio-psychological and economic factors play roles in explaining individuals and groups' perception about finitude, age differentiation also affect the interpretation people give to human demise.The role of religious belief and age differentiation has been pointed the manner in which people manage the issue of death as a phenomenon [3]. In essence, religion and age of individuals is a significant factor in the understanding of the way people perceive and react to death and the end of life. According to Jung, individual differences in age and life experiences also affect their perception about death. Furthermore, as death is naturally occurring and demands a retiring formality from humans, religion helps to abate the anxieties, which are bound to overwhelm the individuals who may likely see death as unacceptable.Similarly, Frank [4] maintained that the inevitability nature of death made it a somewhat challenge to the perception and understanding of the individuals that the end up in search of consolation. According to Frank, spiritual belief and the level of 2017ACTA PSYCHOPATHOLOGICA ISSN 2469-6676 Vol. 3 No. 5: 56 2 This article is available from: https://psychopathology.imedpub.com/ religiosity and cultural perspective among the population in any given setting even though some scholars seem to ignore these [12][13][14].Similarly, some scholars have given more attention to anxiety about death more than other socio-psychological and cultural factors surrounding attitude and belief about death [15].According to the study by Weafer [8], individuals in advanced nations such as Ireland, Belgium, Norway and Luxemburg were found to have civilized to make decision in advance about life termination should they face with terminal illness in future time.In a multiple city/nations, Weafer [8] discovered that majority of the respondents (82%) preferred allowing their ...

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Who's afraid of death?

Cited by 166 publications

References 13 publications

Personal Fear of Death and Grief in Bereaved Mothers

Personal Fear of Death and Grief in Bereaved Mothers

Predictors of Fear of Death and Self-Mortality: An Atlantic Canadian Perspective

Culture, Perception/Belief about Death and their Implication to the Awareness and Control of the Socio-Economic, Environmental and Health Factors Surrounding Lower Life Expectancy in Nigeria

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