Perceptions of Death among Older Adults: Integrating Terror Management Theory and the Lifespan Development Framework
Terror management theory (TMT) seeks to understand religious worldview adherence, positing that worldview beliefs can abate existential threats such as mortality salience. Most research on TMT has employed young samples, so influences on older adults' experiences of mortality salience are uncle...
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Virginia Tech
2017
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10919/78115 http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-05132015-122446/ |