Religiosity, Fear of Death and Suicide Acceptability
- 1 September 1979
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior
- Vol. 9 (3) , 163-172
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1943-278x.1979.tb00561.x
Abstract
The present research was an attempt to test two hypotheses derived from a recently proposed social psychological model of suicide: The acceptability of suicide is a decreasing function of religiosity and fear of death. Questionnaire data were collected for 205 undergraduates at a midwestern university in 1978. The questionnaire included several measures of religiosity, a factor analysis multidimensional fear of death scale, and a suicide acceptability scale. Results, showing that all of the religiosity measures and certain types of fear of death were significantly related to the acceptability of suicide, supported to the hypotheses under examination.This publication has 9 references indexed in Scilit:
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