title: Death Attitudes and Changes in Existential Outlook in Parents of Vulnerable Newborns.
abstract: This study is an Actor-Partner Interdependence Model analysis of the relation of death attitudes with changes in outlook in 59 parent couples of neonatal intensive care newborns. Death attitudes effects with changes in outlook were mostly intrapersonal and they mainly occurred in fathers, though between gender differences were not usually significant. Death avoidance and neutral death acquiescence were positive predictors of positive changes in outlook, and fear of death and neutral death acquiescence were respective positive and inverse predictors of negative changes. Multidimensional measures of death attitudes and personal change should be used when studying these domains of psychological functioning.
authors: a Department of Neonatology , The Children's Hospital at Westmead , Sydney , Australia.
authors: Peter
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authors: Barr
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001293:Attitude to Death; D005220:Fathers / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007232:Infant, Newborn, Diseases / Q000523:psychology*; D008297:Male; D009035:Mothers / Q000523:psychology; D010290:Parents / Q000523:psychology*; D012737:Sex Factors; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires