1st Edition
Death Anxiety Handbook: Research, Instrumentation, And Application
Edited By Robert A. Neimeyer
Copyright 1994
303 Pages
by
Taylor & Francis
312 Pages
by
Taylor & Francis
312 Pages
by
Taylor & Francis
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Presenting a broad coverage of this major area of studies on death and dying, this book provides a systematic presentation of the six most widely used and best validated measures of death anxiety, threat and fear. These chapters consider the available data on the psychometric properties of each instrument and summarize research using them, and also supply a copy of the instrument with scoring keys... Read more
I: Theoretical Overview; 1: Death Anxiety in Adult Life— Theoretical Perspectives; II: Research Instruments; 2: A Revised Death Anxiety Scale; 3: The Collett—Lester Fear of Death Scale; II: The Threat Index and Related Methods; 5: Validity and Reliability of the Multidimensional Fear of Death Scale; 6: Death Attitude Profile—Revised: A Multidimensional Measure of Attitudes Toward Death; 7: Death Competency: Bugen's Coping with Death Scale and Death Self-Efficacy; III: Applications; 8: Reduced Death Threat in Near-Death Experiencers; 9: Death Threat, Parental Loss, and Interpersonal Style: A Personal Construct Investigation; 10: Death Depression and Death Anxiety in HIV-Infected Males; 11: Death Concern and Attitudes Toward the Elderly in Nursing Home Personnel; 12: Psychological Defenses Against Death Anxiety; 13: Changing Death Attitudes Through Death Education; IV: Conclusion; 14: Death Attitudes in Adult Life: A Closing Coda
Biography
Robert A. Neimeyer
