Cultural Changes in Attitudes Toward Death, Dying, and Bereavement.

By comparing the findings from Kalish's and Reynolds's landmark 1970's Death and Ethnicity Study to their own present study, Hayslip and Peveto examine the impact of cultural change on death attitudes. With a focus on African-American, Asian-American, and Hispanic-American subpopulati...

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Main Author: Peveto, Cynthia A.
Other Authors: Hayslip, Bert, Jr
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Springer Pub. Co., 2004.
Series:Springer series on death and suicide.
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505 0 |a Contents; Foreword; 1 Introduction; 2 An Overview of the Death-Ethnicity Relationship: Kalish and Reynolds; 3 Factors Influencing Death Attitudes: Kalish and Reynolds; 4 The Impact of Cultural Change on Death Attitudes; 5 The Present Study; 6 Analysis of Findings: Intrastudy Variability; 7 Analysis of Findings: Interstudy Variability; 8 Hypotheses Regarding Interstudy and Intrastudy Variability; 9 Discussion; Appendix A: Summary of Results by Ethnicity, Age, and Gender for the Present Study. 
505 8 |a Appendix B: Chi Square Comparisons of Kalish and Reynolds' Study With the Present Study's Results on Selected ItemsReferences; Index. 
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