The growth of death awareness through death education among university students in Hong Kong.
This study attempts to explore the attitude toward death, which ranges from fear of death to its acceptance, held by students of one of the universities in Hong Kong. It also tries to examine the relationship between their attitude toward death and their ratings of life and death. Another aim of this study is to evaluate the efficacy of a death education course offered in that university. It is found that the present death attitude of Hong Kong university students is not satisfactory and that it has been significantly improved after students took a death education course.
Wong
Wai-Ying
WY
Department of Philosophy, Lingnan University, Hong Kong. wongwy@ln.edu.hk
D000328:Adult; D000739:Anecdotes as Topic; D001293:Attitude to Death / Q000208:ethnology*; D003466:Cultural Characteristics; D005260:Female; D005655:Funeral Rites; D006117:Grief; D006266:Health Education / Q000379:methods*; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006723:Hong Kong; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D012931:Social Environment; D012938:Social Perception; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D055815:Young Adult