Mental imagery and anxiety toward death in adolescents
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This study analyzed the influence of the image of death (positive or negative) and gender on death anxiety and assessed several subscales of the Death Attitude Profile-Revised in a sample of 280 compulsory secondary education students. Individuals with a positive image of death were found to exhibit less death anxiety than individuals with a negative image of death, and death anxiety was higher in boys than girls. Students with a positive image of death had greater Approach Acceptance, less Fear of Death, less Death Avoidance, more Escape Acceptance, and more Neutral Acceptance than students with a negative image of death.
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Neutral acceptance is positively correlated with indifference towards death and a more positive image of death in young people.
“Neutral acceptance is also positively correlated with indifference towards death [46], and a more positive image of death in young people [51, 52].”
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- Authors
- López-Pérez, M. E., Pino-Juste, M., & Campos, A.
- Affiliations
- Department of Teaching and School Organization, University of Vigo, Vigo, Spain
- Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (ES)
- Corresponding author
- Campos, Alfredo
- Venue
- Death Studies
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2020-12-28
- Volume
- 46
- Issue
- 8
- Pages
- 1891-1896
- ISSN
- 0748-1187 (ISSN-L)
- 1091-7683
- OpenAlex
- W3115608066
- Cited by
- 2
- References
- 42
- Citations by year
- 2023: 1 · 2022: 1
- FWCI
- 0.55
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Death Studies (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Investigo Institutional repository of UVigo (Universidade de Vigo) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion
- Social Sciences › Anthropology › Death, Funerary Practices, and Mourning
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health
- Keywords
- fear of death, adolescents, gender differences, Death Attitude Profile-Revised, death avoidance
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Anxiety, Attitude to Death, Fear, Female, Humans, Male, Phobic Disorders, Students
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