Do you know someone who struggles with high levels of anxiety or neuroticism? This could be why. swhitbo explains.
Indicate how frequently you are troubled by each thought from 1 to 5 :2. It would be horrible to die alone5. I will lose a loved one suddenly and it will destroy me7. I would not cope if someone I care for developed a fatal illness1. Watching or reading news stories about dying3. Reading a novel with a character who is dying6.
Turning next to the question of how these scores would relate to neuroticism, the correlation to a standard measure was .35, lower than its relationship to level of anxiety or stress but higher than depression. Unfortunately, the authors did not conduct statistical tests that would rule out inter-relationships among the criterion measures, but they did show in a separate analysis that the DABBS scores distinguished significantly between clinical and non-clinical samples.
Most useful, from a clinical standpoint, are the items that tap into death-related beliefs . In keeping with theapproach, treatment could focus on pulling out those maladaptive beliefs and helping individuals reframe them in more neutral ways. If you scored high on several of these items, you could ask yourself why you felt so strongly about them and then try to imagine ways in which death could “kindly stop" for you and those you love.
Returning to the example of your neurotic shopping companion, it would hardly be appropriate to pull out the DABBS to do a quick death anxiety check. However, you might gain a better understanding of why someone would be so hesitant about making a firm choice, perhaps out of a conviction that something indeed bad would happen if they picked out the wrong gift such as receiving a nasty comment from those present at the occasion.
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