Attitudes & Death Anxiety
This is defined as a way of presenting oneself to or being in the world.
What is an attitude?
TMT stands for this.
What is Terror Management Theory?
The chapter identifies this many basic categories of death-related attitudes.
What is four?
Philippe Ariès identified this many dominant patterns in Western social and cultural attitudes toward death.
What are five?
In this community, death is not feared and acceptance of one’s own death is valued.
Who are the Amish?
Attitudes help shape and form our knowledge of what is happening because they are influenced by these two things we bring to experiences.
What are prior beliefs and feelings?
According to TMT, humans become aware of the inevitability of this.
What is their own death?
This category includes concerns about experiencing a long, painful, difficult, or undignified dying process.
What is my own dying?
This pattern views death as familiar, simple, inevitable, and inescapable.
What is Tame Death?
For the Amish, dying is understood as part of this larger process.
What is the family life cycle?
This refers to the complex and not fully understood emotional response involving concerns about death.
What is death anxiety?
TMT proposes that awareness of death can produce these three responses.
What are anxiety, denial, and terror?
Wanting to resist death by fighting the loss of one’s life and loved ones falls under this category.
What is my own death?
In this pattern, the dying person is seen as a separate individual whose death produces great anxiety.
What is Death of the Self?
Among the Amish, death rituals are conducted by this group and involve the entire community.
What is the family?
One assumption of death-anxiety research is that people will be both willing and able to do this with their death anxieties.
What is disclose them?
According to TMT, symbolic cultural systems attempt to provide life with these two things.
What are meaning and value?
Fear of judgment and punishment, along with hope for heavenly rewards, belongs to this category.
What will happen to me after my death?
This pattern views death as both natural and imminent while simultaneously trying to keep death at a distance.
What is Remote & Imminent Death?
The Puritans of 17th-century New England viewed these two possibilities surrounding death as terrifying prospects.
What are death and final damnation?
According to the generalized research findings in the chapter, these individuals typically report higher death anxiety than men.
Who are women?
This term refers to the awareness or psychological salience of one’s mortality and is questioned by TMT researchers as a possible dominant motivation in human life.
What is mortality salience?
Questions such as “What will I do when my loved one is gone?” and “Will I feel relief when he or she has died?” belong to this category.
What is the dying, death, or bereavement of someone else?
This pattern is characterized by the romanticization of death and the idea that death represents an intolerable separation for survivors.
What is Death of the Other?
Compared with the Amish, Puritan concerns about salvation and high child mortality could place strain on these relationships.
What are parent-child relationships?