Enhancing Existential Thinking through Death Education: A Qualitative Study among High School Students.

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Autor/Urheber	Ines Testoni; Lorenza Palazzo; Ciro De Vincenzo; Michael Alexander Wieser
Institution	MDPI AG
Titel	Enhancing Existential Thinking through Death Education: A Qualitative Study among High School Students.
Quelle	In: doi:10.3390/bs10070113; 2076-328X; Behavioral Sciences, Vol 10, Iss 113, p 113 (2020)(2020) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
DOI	10.3390/bs10070113
Schlagwörter	death education; adolescents; hospice; fear of death; terror management theory; Psychology
Abstract	The censorship of death-related issues is widespread in contemporary Western culture because the boundary between death and life is substantially managed in medical areas. In the context of Italian educational initiatives, to remove this limitation, 215 high school students in Southern Italy were educated on death through conventional and informal lessons. The students answered a questionnaire with open questions to survey their emotional and reflective experiences. Their answers were qualitatively, thematically analysed to explore how the representation of death can follow a death education course, and if this experience can be managed without harmful effects. The students' answers narrated how the course reduced their anxiety linked to these themes, on the one hand improving communication between peers by making it more authentic and empathic and, on the other, providing alternative perspectives on life. Indeed, the project offered an opportunity to discuss something strongly heartfelt but rarely faced, and the survey confirmed that the research objectives were fully achieved.
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