The Correlations of Attitudes toward Suicide with Death Anxiety, Religiosity, and Personal Closeness to Suicide
- 1 December 1981
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying
- Vol. 11 (4) , 317-324
- https://doi.org/10.2190/yp62-4u57-v8cj-xynh
Abstract
College students from four different institutions were asked to report their attitudes toward suicide, their anxiety about death, the degree of their religiosity, the substance of their religious beliefs, and the seriousness with which they had considered suicide. The more supportive students were about the right of people in general to commit suicide and the more situations they felt would justify their own suicide, the more anxious they felt about death, the less strongly they were committed to a religion, and the more seriously they had thought about committing suicide. A discussion about the ramifications of these results for the college campus is included.Keywords
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