師院生面對死亡之態度及其相關因素之研究

• Main Author: 林玉芳
• Other Authors: 陸怡琮
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2002
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/86547062943282229481

碩士 === 國立屏東師範學院 === 國民教育研究所 === 90 === This purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between people’s attitude towards death and personal background, death-related experiences, as well as one’s philosophy of death. The sample was 850 students selected from National Pingtung Teacher’s College. Each student was surveyed on demographic information, Death Attitude Profile (DAP), and Death Concepts Scale. The major findings were as follows: 1. Among the DAP subscales, students scored highest on “neutral acceptance”, followed by “fear of death/dying”, and “escape-oriented death acceptance” was the lowest. 2. Students of different religions, frequency of funeral attendance, and death philosophy differed on “fear of death/dying”. Those without strong religious beliefs were much more scared of death than their counterparts with strong religion affiliation. Students who had attended less than three funerals were much more frightened of death than their counterparts who had attended more than four funerals. Also, those who believed in ghosts, getting deliberation after death or reincarnation were afraid of death or dying, while those who believed in nature immortality were less afraid of death. 3. Students seniority, health condition, with or without suicide ideation, family discussion about death, and death philosophyhad sontheing to do with the differences shown on “escape-oriented death acceptance.” Sophomores seemed to have stronger inclination to regard death as exoneration from pain than their freshman and senior counterparts. While students with poorer health condition and with much more suicide ideation tended to view death as an escape than their counterparts with good health condition or with little or less suicide ideation. The negative response such as blames received in family discussion seemed to have deep effect on the student’s attitude toward death, which turned them into accepting death as an escape than their counterparts receiving empathetic listening. Students who believed in death as deliberation were inclined to treat death as an escape in stark comparison with those who believed in nature immortality were likely to face death undauntedly. 4. Religion, the piousness in religiosity, death-related experiences resulting from serious illness, and death philosophy were of great effect on the differences displayed on “approach-oriented death acceptance”. Students devoted to Buddhism and Christianity seemed to perceive death as a promising and better future, with less fear and anxiety of death; they also showed much stronger religious tendency. Participants who ever witnessed relatives die of critical illness or who had death experiences could brace for their own death than their counterparts without such experiences. Those who believed in the other death philosophies, such as seeing death as deliberation, reincarnation, permanent life after death, ghosts or divinity after death, and naturism/immortality─appeared to show significantly positive attitude toward afterlife and future and they were much less afraid of and anxiety of death. 5. Social Economic Status (SES), interests towards death issue, sources of information about death, and death philosophy played a part in the differences shown on “neutral acceptance”. Students from lower or mediocre SES were likely to take death as part of life. As far as the students who had much interest in death issue were concerned were inclined to looking at death as part of natural life. As to those who could get access to more information of death via books or internet, they took the stand of showing more “neutral acceptance” than their counterparts obtaining sources from school only. Nevertheless, students who believed in ghosts or divinity after death had much more difficulty in accepting death as part of life. While nature immortality believers tended to agree with the idea, neither would they be afraid of death nor did they brace for it. Based on the results, the research also proposed some suggestions for teacher educators and future researchers. Keyword: Attitudes toward death, students of teachers college