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Direct linkHui, Victoria Ka-Ying; Coleman, Peter G. – Death Studies, 2012
The aim of this exploratory survey study was to develop and validate a Buddhist reincarnation beliefs scale and explore the relation between Buddhist reincarnation beliefs and personal death anxiety in 141 older adult Hong Kong Chinese Buddhists. Buddhist reincarnation beliefs were unrelated to personal death anxiety. This suggests that not all…
Descriptors: Older Adults, Anxiety, Foreign Countries, Buddhism
Keeley, Maureen; Baldwin, Paula – Journal of Loss and Trauma, 2012
This qualitative study examined messages of everyday communication (small talk and routine interactions). The importance of these messages was highlighted in light of their role in creating structure, safety, and meaning making in the family at the end of life. In addition, family rituals that developed from children's everyday communication were…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Communication, Death, Behavior Patterns, Repetition
Peer reviewedHenschen, Keith R.; Heil, John – Omega: Journal of Death and Dying, 1992
Investigated psychological effects of teammate's exercise-related sudden death on 10 remaining team members at end of collegiate careers (4 years later). Findings indicated initially similar responses from teammates (shock and disbelief); mixed reactions concerning influence of event on individual lives; deep emotions during interviews; and…
Descriptors: Athletes, College Athletics, College Students, Death
Grabe, Shelly; Routledge, Clay; Cook, Alison; Andersen, Christie; Arndt, Jamie – Psychology of Women Quarterly, 2005
Previous research has illustrated the negative psychological consequences of female body objectification. The present study explores how female body objectification may serve as a defense against unconscious existential fears. Drawing from terror management theory, an experiment was designed to test the potential functionality of female body…
Descriptors: Females, Human Body, Self Concept, Gender Differences
Peer reviewedHacker, Douglas J. – Journal of Early Adolescence, 1994
Examines from an existential view the development of abstract thought in adolescents and the conflicts arising from its process. Proposes an existential model that views various types of adolescent behavior as the manifestation of the adolescent's defense mechanisms developed in response to existential conflict; presents specific examples of…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Adolescent Behavior, Adolescent Development, Adolescents
