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The aim of the study was to determine the extent of the psychological influence that human cadaver dissection has on Homoeopathy and Chiropractic students. Changes in axiety levels, appraisals (of the self, the situation and the environment), coping strategies and behavioural changes were investigated during the following four dissection phases: (i) before the dissection started (preparation); (ii) the first dissection period (exposure); (iii) two weeks after dissection started (development of resources) and (iv) three months after dissection started (stabilisation). Anxiety levels were measured using the Taylor Manifest Anxiety Scale and the Templer Death Anxiety Scale. The remaining sections of the self-administered questionnaire included open and closed ended sections. Anxiety levels were found to be low, possibly due to students being previously exposure to the dissection hall, during peer tutoring sessions. Although active coping strategies were used most often, no clear pattern emerged with regard to which coping strategy was more effective in dealing with dissection anxiety. / Psychology / M. Sc. (Psychology)

The aim of the study was to determine the extent of the psychological influence that human cadaver dissection has on Homoeopathy and Chiropractic students. Changes in axiety levels, appraisals (of the self, the situation and the environment), coping strategies and behavioural changes were investigated during the following four dissection phases: (i) before the dissection started (preparation); (ii) the first dissection period (exposure); (iii) two weeks after dissection started (development of resources) and (iv) three months after dissection started (stabilisation). Anxiety levels were measured using the Taylor Manifest Anxiety Scale and the Templer Death Anxiety Scale. The remaining sections of the self-administered questionnaire included open and closed ended sections. Anxiety levels were found to be low, possibly due to students being previously exposure to the dissection hall, during peer tutoring sessions. Although active coping strategies were used most often, no clear pattern emerged with regard to which coping strategy was more effective in dealing with dissection anxiety. / Psychology / M. Sc. (Psychology)

This study compared three groups of day care directors with regard to their levels of death anxiety and their responses to situations involving death that affect children in the day care center. In addition, the study compared the variables of age, years of experience in day care, parental status, and self-reported degree of religiosity with the directors' levels of death anxiety and their responses to simulated death situations. A possible relationship between the levels of death anxiety of the directors and their responses to simulated death situations was also investigated.

Bakgrund: I den palliativa vården behandlas patienter som fått en sjukdom som inte längre är botbar. Palliativ vård kännetecknas av två faser, den tidiga och den sena fasen, där den sena fasen innebär att patienter symtomlindras för att försöka skapa en god sista tid i livet. Dödsångest kan visa sig när rädslor framträder i samband med tanken om döden. Då dödsångest är flerdimensionellt kan det finnas flera bakomliggande orsaker som leder till det. Syfte: Att beskriva upplevelsen av dödsångest utifrån patientens perspektiv hos patienter inskrivna i palliativ vård genom en litteraturöversikt med kvalitativ ansats.  Metod: Litteraturöversikten är en sammanställning av 14 artiklar med kvalitativ design som analyserades induktivt med hjälp av Fribergs femstegsmodell. Resultat: Det upplevdes svårt att hantera situationen som den var då patienter inte visste hur dödsprocessen skulle utspela sig. Att mista sin autonomi och självbestämmande bidrog till dödsångest. Smärta förknippades med att döden skulle göra ont vilket gjorde patienterna oroliga. Tankar var svåra att förskjuta, döden var överhängande och hotande. Många förlitade sig på att sjukvården skulle lindra deras lidande. Slutsatser: När patienter står inför sin hotande död kan existentiell smärta uppstå. Dödsångest inom palliativ vård är vanligt förekommande. Sjuksköterskans viktigaste roll i mötet med patienter handlar om kommunikation, uppmuntran och empati. / Background: In the palliative care, patients with life-threatening diseases that is no longer curable are treated. Palliative care is characterized by two stages, the early and the late where the late stage means that patients are symptomatically relieved to try to create a good end of their life. Death anxiety can appear when fears is combined with thoughts of death. Death anxiety is multi-dimensional, there may be several underlying causes that leads to it. Aim: To describe the experience of death anxiety in palliative care through a literature review with a qualitative approach. Method: The literature review is a conclusion of 14 articles with qualitative design that were inductively analyzed using Friberg's five-step model. Results: It was difficult to handle the situation when patients did not know how the death process would turn out. To lose their autonomy and self-determination contributed to death anxiety. Pain was associated with death causing the patient's pain. Thoughts of death was difficult to avoid, death was imminent and threatening. Many relied on the health care professionals to relieve their suffering. Conclusion: When patients are facing their own impending death, existential pain can emerge. Death anxiety is common among palliative care patients. The most important role that the nurses have in the meeting with patients are communication, encouragement and empathy.

The Puritan attitude toward death in seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century New England was ambivalent and contained both terror at the possibility of eternal damnation and hope for deliverance. The joyful theme of the migratio ad Dominum resonated with the Saints only at times when they were convinced divine grace was actively working in their lives, but when they saw they were backsliding, the horror of death prevailed. Puritan anxiety about death was caused by tensions inherent in the doctrine of predestination, which implied man's dependence on God's inscrutability, and in the doctrine of assurance, which implied that self-doubt was more desirable than full assurance of salvation. What complicated any verification of the presence of grace was man's endless potential for self-deception. Memento mori gave urgency to the Puritan work ethic and the effective use of time. The anxiety about one's destiny began in early childhood when death and its ensuing horrors for the depraved were used as a means of religious instruction to provoke spiritual precocity and conversion. This early immersion into the discourse about death has been erroneously interpreted as a proof of the non-existence of childhood in Puritan New England. Deathbed scenes depicted in Puritan spiritual biographies were designed as examples...

El presente trabajo identifica la relación entre la satisfacción de vida y la ansiedad ante la muerte en adultos mayores nikkei. La metodología de investigación es tipo correlacional inversa no experimental. La muestra fue de 200 adultos mayores de 68 a 96 años con ascendencia japonesa de un centro cultural de la ciudad de Lima (M= 81.9 años; DE= 6.1 años). Se utilizaron la Escala de Satisfacción de vida de Diener (SWLS) y la Escala de Ansiedad ante la muerte de Templer (EAM). Los resultados reportaron una baja correlación negativa entre la satisfacción con la vida y el miedo a la muerte (r= -.211; Sig = .003), miedo a la agonía y enfermedad (r= -1.80; Sig= .011) y miedo a que la vida llegue a su fin (r= -.121; Sig= .088). La primera y segunda dimensión, miedo a la muerte y miedo a la agonía y enfermedad, mostraron significancia, pero la dimensión restante no reportó significancia. / This study aims to find the relationship between the satisfaction of life and death anxiety in nikkei elderly adults. The methodology of research is type correlational non experimental. The sample was 200 elderly adults with japanese ascendency with 68 to 96 years old of a cultural center. (M=81 years old). There were used the Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS) and Templer’s death anxiety scale (EAM). The results report a low negative correlation between satisfaction with life and fear of death (r= -.211; Sig = .003), fear of agony and disease (r= -1.80; Sig= .011) and fear of life will come to an end (r= -.121; Sig= .088). The first and second dimension, fear to death and fer of agony and disease, show significance, but the remaining one did not report significance. / Tesis

While some individuals experience their work as meaningful, others, with the same job, do not. The purpose of this dissertation is to answer the following question: Why do different individuals, with the same job, view the meaningfulness of their work in conflicting ways? I draw on terror management theory and generativity theory to answer this question by testing the relationship between death awareness and meaningful work. The bulk of academic work concerning meaningful work focuses on its outcomes and few scholars have explained the antecedents of meaningful work. This study aims to extend empirical work of the relationship between death awareness and meaningful.

In order to measure how role-playing games could potentially influence the players’ attitudes towards death and mortality, 191 subjects were surveyed using the revised version of the Death Attitude Profile (DAP-R) (Wong, Reker, and Gesser 1994), a Likert-scale 32 item closed survey. 14 of the respondents were surveyed in person before playing the live-action role-playing game Hello In There (Hugaas 2019), a game that deals with themes of death and mortality, and again in an online form 24 days later. These results were compared to each other, and run through a one way ANOVA and a two-tailed Welch test to determine significance. The other 177 respondents were surveyed once, using an online form, and four demographic questions were added to use as functions from which to interpret the results. The demographic questions concerned themselves with age, gender, general role-playing experience, and specific role-playing experience with themes of death and mortality. These results were run through a one-way ANOVA, a post hoc Tukey-Kramer test, and a two-tailed Welch test to determine significance. The results as a whole were run through a Cronbach’s alpha test to determine internal consistency and reliability. For the group of 14 respondents who were surveyed twice, there were no statistically significant differences in results between the two surveys. For the group of 177 respondents, the results showed differences between men and women in relation to Approach Acceptance, and between Men and Non-Binary/Genderqueer respondents in relation to Death Avoidance. Furthermore the results showed differences in Neutral Acceptance and Approach Acceptance between different age groups, and differences in Fear of Death and Death Avoidance between groups with different levels of experience from games dealing with themes of death and mortality. The most significant differences were found between groups with different amounts of general role-playing experience, where differences were found in Fear of Death, Death Avoidance, Neutral Acceptance, Approach Acceptance, and Escape Acceptance.