This study describes the psychological effects of death education in reducing the fear of
death in a large cohort of Italian adolescents. Following the constructs of “distal defenses” …

Background The denial of death in Western society deprives young people of the tools to
derive meaning from experiences of death and dying. Literature shows that death education …

The topic of resilience is of paramount importance. Although the term resilience was coined
in the fields of physics and engineering, its use has spread to the fields of social sciences …

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic is causing major social changes to which significant
psychological effects are linked. During the first phase of the pandemic wave in Italy, whilst …

Spirituality may be a key factor in reducing the negative psychological effects of traumatic
events and a means by which the experience of grief can be processed. The objective of the …

The main objective of this study is to investigate the relation of daily spiritual experiences to
multifaceted meaning making in bereavement, and the role of social validation of sense …

The article presents the results of a research intervention aimed at exploring the differences
among some factors (death anxiety, ontological representation of death as annihilation …

The COVID-19 pandemic has created profound upheavals in today's society, accompanied
by psychological effects. The discomfort experienced during the pandemic accompanied by …

Loss and its associated grief are important elements of many adverse life events. The focus
of this study is centred on a particular form of mourning: the affliction derived from the social …

Education for death is an emerging field of study in which health education research and
proposals are increasingly being made with the aim of acquiring knowledge and skills to …