Image vividness, image control and attitude towards death in adolescents and adults
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People can have vivid mental images of death and they can have control over them. The aim of this study was to examine the influence of image vividness and image control on attitudes towards death among a group of teenagers (Study 1) and a group of adults (Study 2). The independent variables were image vividness and image control, and the subscales of the Death Attitude Profile-Revised (DAP-R) questionnaire were used as dependent variables: Acceptance of Approach (AA), Fear of Death (FD), Death Avoidance (DA), Escape Acceptance (EA), and Neutral Acceptance (NA). The results showed that teenage subjects with greater image control displayed significantly less Fear of Death (FD) and obtained lower scores in Avoidance of Death (DA) and higher scores in Neutral Acceptance (NA) than students with lower image control. In Study 2, image vividness and image control were not found to influence the subscales of the Death Attitude Profile-Revised (DAP-R). The article also analyses the implications of the findings in an educational context.
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