The Correlation Between Existential Fulfilment and Various Aspects of Attitudes to Death

Student: Kaneva Yuliya

Educational Programme: Psychology (Bachelor)

Final Grade: 9

Year of Graduation: 2016

This paper investigates the correlations between aspects of the fear of death, types of death acceptance and existential fulfillment and existential abilities, analyzed the qualitative content of these correlations. In the first stage, the correlation study confirmed the hypothesis of a direct correlation between existential fulfillment and neutral acceptance of death, as well as with death experience. In the second stage, using semi-structured interviews we revealed that the development of ability to self-distancing plays an important role in the formation of neutral death acceptance.

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