Death Anxiety

Paper Summary:

This paper explains that a growing body of research has indicated that confrontation with another person's death can cause death anxiety, whether the deceased person is known or unknown and especially if the death is that of a child. The author reports that, in the research, a dichotomous Death Anxiety Inventory survey was used to measure anxiety by 10 adult participants self-reading a scenario describing the unexpected death of a female aged 5 years or of a female 85 years. The paper states that there was no significant difference and concludes that this survey was flawed either by lacking internal validity or by failing to evoke true thoughts of death and loss.

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Introduction and Literature Review
Method
Participants
Materials
Procedure
Results
Discussion

From the Paper:

"The present data revealed no significance in death anxiety affected by the death of an unknown child versus death of an unknown adult. Although results were nearly identical for the two groups, statistics indicate that a larger scale study would provide results contradictory to the present hypothesis. Although the margin was very small, it seems that group B (Linda = 85 years) felt more death anxiety than group A (Linda = 5 years). This is contradictory to what was hypothesized based on the literature reviewed."

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