A Study of Subjective Time and Death Anxiety in the Elderly

Author:

Bascue L. O.1,Lawrence R. E.2

Affiliation:

1. Psychologist, Veteran's Administration Hospital

2. Associate Professor and Director, Rehabilitation Counselor Education Program, Department of Counseling and Personnel Services, University of Maryland

Abstract

This study explored the relationship between death anxiety and future time orientation in elderly people. The sample was comprised of 88 women over the age of 62. The overall pattern of results suggests that the elderly may turn away from the future as a way of controlling death anxiety.

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Subject

Life-span and Life-course Studies,Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine,Health(social science)

Reference19 articles.

1. Swenson W. M., A Study of Death Attitudes in the Gerontic Population and their Relationship to Certain Measurable Physical and Social Characteristics, Doctoral Dissertation, University of Minnesota, Ann Arbor, Michigan, University Microfilms, No. 19, p. 177, 1958.

2. Attitudes Toward Death in Older Persons: A Symposium Age, Personality, and Health Correlates of Death Concerns in Normal Aged Individuals

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