thanatology is the academic study of dying, death and grief. it encompasses thoughts, feelings, attitudes, events and the psychological mechanisms of dealing with them. death obsession includes ruminations, repetitive, intrusive thoughts or images about death. death obsession in the nursing profession can occur on a daily basis, and communication with dying patients can be stressful for nurses....

Thanatology is the academic study of dying, death and grief. It encompasses thoughts, feelings, attitudes, events and the psychological mechanisms of dealing with them. Death obsession includes ruminations, repetitive, intrusive thoughts or images about death. Death obsession in the nursing profession can occur on a daily basis, and communication with dying patients can be stressful for nurses....

The reliability and concurrent validity of the 15-item Death Obsession Scale [Abdel-Khalek, A. M. (1998a). The structure and measurement of death obsession. Personality and Individual Di€erences, 24, 159±165] is examined among 174 English university students (83 men, 91 women) and 105 English adults (42 men, 63 women). Consistent with previous ®ndings when using the Death Obsession Scale, the s...

Introduction: Breast cancer is one of the most common types of cancer in women with an increasing outbreak. The present study aimed to investigate the relationship between defensive styles and Islamic quality of life (QoL) with death obsession in women with breast cancer. Methods: This research was a correlational study. The statistical population of the study included 220 female patients with...

Introduction: Breast cancer is one of the most common types of cancer in women with an increasing outbreak. The present study aimed to investigate the relationship between defensive styles and Islamic quality of life (QoL) with death obsession in women with breast cancer. Methods: This research was a correlational study. The statistical population of the study included 220 female patients with...

the relationship between death obsession and death anxiety, with hope among the nursing students of urmia medical sciences university     shiekhy s [1] , issazadegan a [2] *, basharpour s [3] , maroei millan f [4]     received: 15 may , 2013 accepted: 21 jul , 2013  abstract  background & aims : death, an inevitable concept that associates with human being all the time, can cause significant an...

The paper analyzes the short story “Obsession” written by Maxim Gorky in Nizhny Novgorod period of his work, which has been given little attention philological works. On one hand, author himself defined its genre as a Christmas tale; on other this work cannot be brought into line with tales and novels Gogol Dostoyevsky, since Gorky’s story, no miracle occurs. However, small text still deserves ...