Death Anxiety Handbook Research Instrumentation And Application Death Education Aging And Health Care – Robert A Neimeyer

R Wong Gary T. Reker Gina Gesser In the mid-1960s, when Templer began research on the concept of death anxiety, death was a taboo topic with behavioral scientists and mental health professionals (Templer, 1970). Much has changed since. Kiibler-Ross’s (1969) book on death and dying played a pivotal role in the growing popularity of death awareness. According to Feifel (1990), the events of World War II and the impact of humanistic/existential psychology have helped thrust death research to the fore¬ front. The study of death is now a fertile ground for research.

Various instruments have been developed to assess death attitudes (e.g., Collett & Lester, 1969; Gesser, Wong, & Reker, 1987-88; Hooper & Spilka, 1970; Marshall, 1981; Neimeyer, Dingemans, & Epting, 1977). In terms of applications, the emphasis has been on death education for health and hospice professionals (Amenta, 1984; Kalish, 1976; Wass, Corr, Pacholski, & Forfar, 1985). Death anxiety has been by far the dominant theme in empirical studies on death. The inadequacy of research on other types of death attitudes becomes Gina Gesser died unexpectedly, shortly after collecting the data for this chapter.

This chapter is dedicated to her in memory of her contributions to research on death attitudes. conspicuous when one contrasts this research with the number of instruments and studies focused on death anxiety (Marshall, 1981). Moreover, empirical studies have outstripped theoretical developments in death research. Very few studies have been theoretically motivated. There has been a lack of overarching theory, although an approach based on Kelly’s (1955) personal construct theory and focusing on the cognitive structure of death anxiety holds promise (Epting & Neimeyer, 1984; Neimeyer, 1988).

We address these issues in death attitude research in this chapter. First, we develop an existential view of death attitudes and argue that both death accep¬ tance and death fear are related to the pursuit of personal meaning.

Edited by Robert A. Neimeye Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2019 with funding from Kahle/Austin Foundation https://archive.org/details/deathanxietyhandOOOOunse V DEATH ANXIETY HANDBOOK SERIES IN DEATH EDUCATION, AGING, AND HEALTH CARE HANNELORE WASS, CONSULTING EDITOR ADVISORY BOARD Herman Feifel, Ph.D. Jeanne Quint Benoliel, R.N., Ph D.

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