Life Experience with Death: Relation to Death Attitudes and to the Use of Death-Related Memories

Autor/inn/en	Bluck, Susan; Dirk, Judith; Mackay, Michael M.; Hux, Ashley
Titel	Life Experience with Death: Relation to Death Attitudes and to the Use of Death-Related Memories
Quelle	In: Death Studies, 32 (2008) 6, S.524-549 (26 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0748-1187
Schlagwörter	Memory; Attitude Measures; Death; Personal Narratives; Autobiographies; Anxiety; Psychological Patterns; Coping; Correlation; Fear; Volunteers; Florida + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Gedächtnis; Sterbefall; Tod; Todesfall; Erlebniserzählung; Autobiography; Autobiografie; Autobiographie; Angst; Bewältigung; Korrelation; Furcht; Freiwilliger
Abstract	The study examines the relation of death experience to death attitudes and to autobiographical memory use. Participants (N = 52) completed standard death attitude measures and wrote narratives about a death-related autobiographical memory and (for comparison) a memory of a low point. Self-ratings of the memory narratives were used to assess their functional use. Results show that higher levels of experience with death were related to lower levels of death anxiety and avoidance. Participants with higher levels of death experience also more frequently used their death-related memories to serve adaptive functions. (Contains 3 figures and 3 tables.) (As Provided).
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