Cultural Changes In Attitudes Toward Death, Dying, And Bereavement

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ISBN: 9780826127969 | 0826127967
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 11/1/2004

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Focusing on African-American, Asian-American, and Hispanic-American subpopulations with Caucasians treated as a comparison group, text surveys the impact of cultural change on death attitudes. Discusses the trends on being informed of terminal prognosis and personal approaches toward funerals and mourning.

Foreword by Robert Kastenbaum	ix
1 Introduction	1	(4)
2 An Overview of the Death-Ethnicity Relationship: Kalish and Reynolds	5	(18)
3 Factors Influencing Death Attitudes: Kalish and Reynolds	23	(36)
4 The Impact of Cultural Change on Death Attitudes	59	(6)
5 The Present Study	65	(12)
6 Analysis of Findings: Intrastudy Variability	77	(8)
7 Analysis of Findings: Interstudy Variability	85	(12)
8 Hypotheses Regarding Interstudy and Intrastudy Variability	97	(4)
9 Discussion	101	(30)
Appendix A: Summary of Results by Ethnicity, Age, and Gender for the Present Study	131	(44)
Appendix B: Chi Square Comparisons of Kalish and Reynolds' Study With the Present Study's Results on Selected Items	175	(8)
References	183	(8)
Index	191

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Cultural Changes In Attitudes Toward Death, Dying, And Bereavement

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