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The Relationship Between Religiosity And Implicit Vs. Explicit Death Anxiety, Samantha Marin
The Relationship Between Religiosity And Implicit Vs. Explicit Death Anxiety, Samantha Marin
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While there is ample reason to expect a relationship between religiosity and death anxiety, conflicting results across studies indicate a need to separately measure the unconscious and conscious aspects of death anxiety in order to further the research and refine theory. The current study tests the hypothesis that those who are more religious will demonstrate greater implicit death anxiety (IDA) and lower explicit death anxiety (EDA) than those who are lower in religiosity. Due to a lack of adequate measures for IDA, a self-report measure was created for the purpose of this study in order to assess death anxiety below …