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The study of good death and attitudes toward good death among university students majoring in nursing, social work and teacher education

The main purpose of the study is to understand the social work students¡¦, nursing students¡¦ and interns¡¦ concepts toward death attitude and good death, to analyze the difference of reasons between death attitude and good death, and to discuss the relevance of death attitude and good death. The research subjects are university students majoring in public welfare, education and nursing. There are 570 effective questionnaires. Questionnaire survey is adopted in the method of research and the research tools include Death Attitude Profile-Revised, DAP-R, Independent t test, multivariate analysis of variance, Scheffe¡¦s posterior comparison, canonical correlation analysis,stepwise multiple regression analysis and the self-edited scale for
good death which are used to analyze the data. The result indicates
the most research subjects accept the Neutral Acceptance toward death. The concept of good death is analyzed into seven notions such as cognition, physiology, affection, religion, morality, spirituality, and clinical observation. Moreover, the survey responsers¡¦ attitude about the death differs individually. The reasons of death attitude show the difference in many fields. For example, gender, religion, self-consciousness, the passion for religion, the frequency of talking about death, attendance of funerals and if having the thought of suicide. All of these are crucial points in this research. Also, people¡¦s concepts of good death are different from the former reasons. The attitude of death and the concept of good death are relating to each other. Last, the study proposes several thinking directions to set up positive outlook on life and integrate the concept into the life curriculum.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0219112-145228
Date19 February 2012
CreatorsHu, Hui-ting
Contributorsnone, none, none, Shu-Ching Yang
PublisherNSYSU
Source SetsNSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive
LanguageCholon
Detected LanguageEnglish
Typetext
Formatapplication/pdf
Sourcehttp://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0219112-145228
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