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| Intervention on attitudes toward death along the life span | | Author(s) | Ma Carmen Abengózar, Belén Bueno, José Luis Vega |
| Journal title | Educational Gerontology, vol 25, no 5, July-August 1999 |
| Pages | pp 435-448 |
| Keywords | Death ; Life span ; Personal relationships ; Anxiety ; Depression ; Spain. |
| Annotation | Changes in attitudes, anxiety and depression toward death along the life span are described, and the effects of two different educational modes on the levels of death anxiety and fear of death are explored in this Spanish study. Nine groups were involved: three of each of young adults, middle-aged people, and older people. These were assigned to a group of each of: "experiential workshop" (dynamic exercises); "conference" (explanation of a monograph on the definition and types of death), or control group. Groups participated in the same tests four months later. Young adults subjected to the "conference" treatment increased their "despair", "sadness" and "depression" about death, whereas those in the experiential workshop had decreased "terror" and "death anxiety" levels, although their level of "despair" increased. In the middle-aged group, significant differences were only found after the experiential workshop intervention, with an increase in "despair", "loneliness", and "death depression" levels. Older people participating in the experiential workshop had decreased levels of "death anxiety". Reasons for such seemingly inexplicable differences are discussed. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-991005231 A |
| Classmark | CW: BG6: DS: ENP: ENR: 76S |
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