CFD 3250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Puritans, Critical Role, Ant-Zen
19 Dec 2018
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To explain the concept of an attitude & to identify death-related attitudes as a component of. To describe death anxiety & review current research. To identify four basic categories of death-related concerns & responses. To sketch a theory of five dominant social patterns in western attitudes toward death. To illustrate the role that attitudes play in death-related experiences - examples from. Attitudes shape & form our knowledge of what is happening: we contribute to our own experiences through our prior beliefs & feelings, death anxiety, death anxiety. Complex & not fully understood: research involves. Comparing different population groups: assumptions of death anxiety research. Individuals will be both willing & able to disclose their death anxieties. Adequate instruments & methodologies are available for identification & measurement: death anxiety, generalized research findings. Women typically report higher death anxiety than men. Older adults appear to report somewhat less death anxiety than some younger persons.
