Death anxiety and a Taoist orientation in two cultures

Percept Mot Skills. 2006 Dec;103(3):778. doi: 10.2466/pms.103.3.778-778.

Abstract

A negative association between having a Taoist orientation to life and death anxiety was found for a sample of 99 American students but not in a sample of 100 Turkish students.

Publication types

  • Comparative Study

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Anxiety / diagnosis
  • Anxiety / psychology*
  • Attitude to Death / ethnology*
  • Cross-Cultural Comparison
  • Culture
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Religious Philosophies*
  • Students / psychology
  • Surveys and Questionnaires
  • Turkey
  • United States