Death Fears in Students of Medical, Social and Engineering Disciplines

Chistopolskaya, K.; Enikolopov, S.; Chubina, S.; Ozol, S.

Авторы: Chistopolskaya K., Enikolopov S., Chubina S., Ozol S.
Сборник: NO ESCAPE: Excavating the multidimensional phenomenon of fear: monograph
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Год издания: 2016
Место издания: Inter-Disciplinary Press Oxford, UK
Первая страница: 51
Последняя страница: 61
Аннотация: Ilya Mechnikov wrote, ‘The awareness of inevitability of death, of which the animals are deprived and which often makes people unhappy, is a reparable wrong and precisely because of science. It is more than possible that it will teach us to live according to the principles of ortobiosis and will lead life to the moment of breaking of the instinct of natural death, when there will be no fear of inevitability of the end.’1 So he thought that science and precisely medical science will deliver people from the fear of death. Thus, these are the doctors themselves, who should be the first people to look death fearlessly into the eyes. We conducted a psychological study of medical (N=205), social (N=156) and engineering sciences students (N=283), checking their time perspectives (Zimbardo Time Perspective Inventory), attachment styles (Experience in Close Relationships Revised),hardiness (Hardiness Survey), as well as death attitudes (Death Attitudes Profile Revised) and death fears (Fear of Personal Death Scale). According to ANOVA post hoc analysis (Games-Howell test for differences among two or more independent groups), the healthiest attitude was found in engineering students: they feared death less and had high scores of well-being. Students of social sciences appeared careless: their data speaks for the lack of high importance of the fear of death. The medical students had low scores of well-being and heightened scores of anxious and avoidant attachment as well as fear of death and fear of forgetting are the most adverse factors. The main difference between medics and engineers is that medics confront death on a daily basis, whereas engineers are safe and far from death, absorbed into their studies of inanimate material. Social students deal with people, but not with death. The proposition is that medics have to fear death in order to avoid it, though it is a hard and gruelling experience to endure.
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