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Dead Attitude of Senior Citizens and its Relationships with Depress and Social Support
Zhou Xuemei, Xu Sheng, Chen Shan, Wu Jie
Studies of Psychology and Behavior
2013, 11 (2):
164-169.
516 valid questionnaires, filled in by senior citizens in Beijing and Tianjin, were collected via the questionnaire investigation, which used Death Attitude Profile-Revised(DAP-R), Depression Scale(CES-D)and Personal Resource Questionnaire 2000(PRQ2000). The results revealed that:(1)there were five dimensions of dead attitude, which were fear of death(DF), death avoidance(DA), neutral acceptance(NA), approach acceptance(AA)and escape acceptance(EA);(2) There were significant differences of scores in dimensions of NA and AA in gender, and there were significant differences of scores in dimensions of DF, NA and EA in education;(3)The depress were negatively correlated with NA, while positive correlations between depress and other four dimensions of dead attitude respectively. Moreover, there was a negative correlation between social support and NA, while a positive correlations between social support and NA.
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